Quotes About Adaptation

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how we're presenting it to the world.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Climate change is a humongous challenge but it also presents numerous economic opportunities.

We must remember that coronavirus is a new disease, which presents new challenges.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In some ways it's much more challenging to preserve that and to also make music that sounds modern.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.

When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.