Quotes About Adaptation

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.

People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.

Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

How Jamie Tartt came to be Jamie Tartt was that he was originally Dani Rojas - but not as we know him now because Cristo Fernandez is Dani Rojas. They saw Cristo Fernandez and went, okay, we're going to make a character and we'll find a name for him.

I originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and trained for years, but when I was around 18, I realized I wasn't going to be as good a ballet dancer as I'd hoped I'd be and decided to become an actress instead.

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.

New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

I hail from an orthodox family, but they encouraged me to learn various dance forms.

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.