Quotes About Adaptation

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.