Quotes About Adaptation

I'd definitely use a 48-inch driver if I could control it.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

I think that the future of the world isn't something you can ignore.

We've really learned to ignore past failures.

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'

I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical. I think I can safely say that that's the last thing I would have expected.

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

At the start it felt strange to wear the Chelsea shirt, because I had never imagined I would leave Barca.

I think I found roles which weren't the roles I thought I'd be doing but they were the kind that brought me where I never imagined myself to be.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.