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“It's reckoned that about 80 per cent of all films are remakes of books, and therefore secondary in nature, and more often than not, inferior. This isn't universally the case, of course, but it seems that most films hang around books like thieves in a car park, trying the door handles of other people's vehicles.” — Simon Armitage

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It's reckoned that about 80 per cent of all films are remakes of books, and therefore secondary in nature, and more often than not, inferior. This isn't universally the case, of course, but it seems that most films hang around books like thieves in a car park, trying the door handles of other people's vehicles.
— Simon Armitage