Quotes About Adaptation

That would be foolish," he said thoughtfully. " You see, Davie, if I was wanting a man to help me with the lambing I'd never wait until the lambing had started. I'd get him into the way of things before. He'd be some help to me then. It's the same with war. I'll need to learn to be a soldier before the fighting starts. That's the sensible way of doing.

Left-hand neighbour turns to me and remarks, 'I am always so sorry for army people – so dreadful to be moved away from a place when you are fond of it.' Reply that there is some consolation in the fact that you are also moved away from places you are not fond of.

If there's no future in what you're doing you should cut your losses and try another line.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

You're aghast at the fact that I'll bring an animal from Cloral or a weapon from Eelong, yet you are quick to bring something that is far more intrusive. You bring ideas, Pendragon! You were raised on Second Earth, and you are all too quick to impose what you feel are the higher morals of that territory on all others. How is that any different from what I have done?

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life.

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

We look at the Mona Lisa and say we're going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place... Bugs Bunny.

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did because I probably wouldn't be where I am had I not.

What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.

I'm not coach D'Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot of us have stolen from him.

I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one, an over-the-top one, and then even bigger than that. I'll do six readings of the line. And they're not all the same. Just so I know if I was wrong about what I should have done, I luckily have this more subtle version.

In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.