Quotes About Adaptation

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.