Adaptations Quotes
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At the studios, everybody`s into sequels or remakes or adaptations of old TV shows. I don`t know if it`s because of the corporate environment or they`re just out of ideas. Pretty soon, they`re going to be wanting to do one of "Rawhide" (1959).
Clint Eastwood
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[on the film adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis books Less Than Zero (1987) and American Psycho (2000)] Those two movies have stripped away his literary devices, and the filmmakers are just trying to tell the story. If you strip away Bret`s devices, you str...
Roger Avary
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[on film adaptations of his work] I don`t feel any urge to control after I sign a piece of paper. I say, "See you later. You have what you need and I have what I want. As long as the check doesn`t bounce, you and I are quits."
Stephen King
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These animals have developed the most phenomenal adaptations. They can turn off their reproductive processes at will. They can live on the diet, like the koalas do, of leaves -- which no one else can get any nutriment out of. These are incredible animals.
Mark Williams
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I`ve seen, without exception, in my opinion don`t work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
Stephen Sondheim
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The films that I`ve done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Walter Salles
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don`t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes
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It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don`t they do something about it? They`ve done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don`t we just re-release this thing?
Richard Donner
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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
Alex Tagliani
Source: brainyquote.com
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Hong Kong Disneyland will have the classic Disneyland design, ... combined with cultural adaptations that enhance our storytelling and guests` enjoyment of the wonderful entertainment that awaits them.
Don Robinson
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Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I`ve been involved with are pieces of work that I`m proud of, so I`m very happy for people to focus on them.
Jenny Agutter
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Doing adaptations is hard, ... because once you say, `I`m going to take everything that millions of other readers have thought of and I`m going to make the definitive version of that,` ... I think it`s a really hard thing to do.
John Ridley
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
I Ching
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interi...
Richard Schickel
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