Quotes About Adaptation

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you have this personal connection to the original material.

'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

It's normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

I was born a trequartista, and have adapted myself to playing in other roles.

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

Whatever role was offered to me, I adapted well and did it with elan. A vamp's role is challenging, but a mother's role is comparatively easy.

I think I adapted well for MMA.

Look at Kylie. She's changed and adapted but still kept her fans. That's what I want to do.

A lot of my favorite books have been adapted horribly.

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.