Quotes About Adaptation

You never have to change a book for budget.

I've always thought that maybe I need to do a live-action movie, have it make a lot of money, and then come back and have a bigger budget for animation and do more with that.

We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

I can't change a light bulb.

When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

What kind of business world are we living in?

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.