Quotes About Adaptation

I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this universe.

We would have never thought of remaking 'Aashiqui' but we will make it a franchise.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

My strength is my flexibility. As a batsman, I have to adapt to different roles and numbers and frankly, I have been around for a long time now to understand different situations.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

When I started I only swam freestyle, and did just freestyle in my first Paralympics.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I like to move with the times and that's why my songs are fresh.