Quotes About Adaptation

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

What you write on the page has nothing to do with when you're on set. When you're on set, it has nothing to do with when you're in the editing room. And when you're in the editing room, it has nothing to do with the final movie. You just have to let it go.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

Because I knew we were going to wear five inches during the pageant, I would train with six inches. So, when it was time to wear the five-inch heels, they felt like nothing to me.

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

'Nicholas Nickleby' is 800 pages long. At one time, the theater production was 15 hours long. So it's an interesting process, about what you leave out and what you select.

I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

First time you step on these new legs, it's bloody hard. It's painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death.