Quotes About Adaptation

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

I think a few pictures at a time.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

It's always just one or two pieces that a team needs to really change things around.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

When you come to the set, and are aware of the limitations of the script or the director, don't expect the pigs to fly.