Quotes About Adaptation

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

I root for 'Spawn' and every other comic-book movie. I hope all of them are successful because, any time one fails, it makes it that much harder to get one made.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.

You need to fail quickly and learn from those failures to continue to build along the way.

I never go by past accolades or failures.

How many remakes are really successful? From 100, 98 are failures. That's because those films are remade without taking into consideration the sensibilities of the audience. I don't do that.

When I moved to India, with all due respect, in the last 10 years I have been here, I have seen my biggest failures and it only happened because of lack of understanding. To make things work and happen, you have to know people. I don't like this whole thing of greasing palms.

I learnt a lot from my failures.

When we went into 2015, we had our way of playing, and we were fairly rigid in what we were doing.

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.

It's a little weird thinking I'm going to be an Atlanta Falcon - just saying that.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV!

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

Moving to Trinidad was a great experiment. I never knew what it would do to my work or even if it would be accepted by people and not be seen as me just falling off the edge of the earth.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.