Quotes About Adaptation

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

I believe in "love it, or change it" rather than "love it, or leave it."

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.