Quotes About Adaptation

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

One of the biggest things about being an entrepreneur is discovering your own management style. You can learn from others and try to emulate what they are doing, but at the end of the day, your inherent personality - how you deal with events and situations - comes to the forefront.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

Initially, it was sort of devastating to lose full animation and go limited.

Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.