Quotes About Adaptation

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

As we all know, the internet is not a true friend of the music industry yet, but technology is slowly changing that. Soon it will work right for all involved.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

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