Quotes About Adaptation

If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an 'X-Men' comic. It's basically like a separate bunch of mutants.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.

You know it yourself; the comic books are one thing and the movies are another thing. You dont always keep it the same.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium.

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.