Quotes About Adaptations

I've seen pretty much all the 'Peter Pan's except for one of the further back ones where the boy had curly hair. I can't remember. I really loved the 2003 version. I really loved that one because that was around the year I was born. That's quite funny.

I have seen both versions of 'The Italian Job' and loved both of them.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.

I am not against remakes. What I feel is that they may not excite me much.

A. B. Guthrie's 1947 novel The Big Sky (even better than its sequel, The Way West, which won the Pulitzer Prize), The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940), and Jack Schaefer's Shane (1949) were all made into well-regarded movies, but these three classics of Western fiction continue to make for wonderful reading.