Quotes About Adaptation

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pressure.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

I was playing 25Ks in Japan, and now I'm the... champion of Indian Wells. It's crazy.

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

I played behind the main striker at Dortmund, but I usually play on the left with Japan.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

The Japanese people treated me very well. They appreciated how I considered the martial arts, the jiu-jitsu and judo. There's some good points and bad points to fight there. The distance was too far from where I used to live in Brazil. It was a 27-hour flight.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.' I always heard that, but never understood it.