Quotes by Adaptation I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore adaptation majority couple I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future. Alan Moore adaptation chance book We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. Alexander Hamilton adaptability adaptation adversity In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. Alfred Russel Wallace adaptation details animal One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes. Andrew Davies necks adaptation clothes I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. Andrew Davies adaptation classic frustration An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead. Andrew Davies dickens adaptation son When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. Ashwin Sanghi adaptation details helping Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation. Beth Moore adaptation environmental guilt Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did Shell Oil look at the melt and say, "Huh, maybe we should go into the solar-panel business instead?" No, Shell Oil looked at that and said, "Oh, well, now that it's melted it will be easier to drill for more oil up there." That's enough to make you doubt about the big brain being a good adaptation. Bill McKibben adaptation doubt brain I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else. Brian K. Vaughan adaptation men people Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad. Camille Paglia adaptation mad consciousness The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations. Charlie Hunnam adaptation landscape cinema You are what you love. Not what loves you. Charlie Kaufman what-you-love adaptation love-you You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that? Charlie Kaufman adaptation dna lonely Writing is a journey into the unknown. Charlie Kaufman adaptation journey writing To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay. Christopher McQuarrie adaptation crime media Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. Daniel Kahneman adaptation process attention Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. David Benioff difficult-choices adaptation cutting The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. David Hare fidelity adaptation mystery 1234»
