Quotes About Adaptation

A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

When my husband died in 2006, I didnt want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.