“Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.” WorldNeedsStoriesFilmNovelFocusSeriesLovelyObservationTensionIntensityForward Motion Author:Lenny Abrahamson
“I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!” DifferentShowsHandsFilmNovelTelevisionDifferent ThingsAnimationGraphicTelevision ShowsGraphic Novels Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.” BigsFilmNovelMovedScreensGenreGraphicGraphic NovelsBig Screen Author:Dustin Clare
“For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.” WayGivingIdeasDifferentCharacterFilmUnderstandingNovelInformationParticularApproachBackgroundsDifferent WaysHelpfulUnderstanding Him Author:Asa Butterfield
“I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.” IfsWritingTryingLooksHeartBookStoriesFilmSoundNovelHonestMy HeartScreenplays Author:Howard Shore
“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.” FirstsKindMatterFilmArtistNovelCrimeTasteElementsCriminalsBagsSimilarityThrillers Author:William Monahan
“If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like "a novel made for the screen" and things like that.” IfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanEndsStoriesFilmYoungNovelRightsAdvicePressesScreensReviewsEngagement Author:William Monahan
“TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.” DifferentShowsFilmActorsNovelMediaTvsReaderDirectorsFellowsTv ShowsRequirementsInkInterpreting Author:Howard Gordon
“When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.” PeopleTogetherFilmSidesSecretNovelExposedGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Etgar Keret
“It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.” IfsThinkingMightFilmNovelPhotographyAreas Author:Lewis Baltz
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.” ThinkingPlayFilmCan DoFictionNovel Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.” FeelsIdeasFilmDifficultResultsNovelUnhappyExceptionDisappointedAdapting Author:Paul Auster
“Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.” ImportantFilmNovelDisciplineEngagedStoryteller Author:Rebecca Miller
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.” WayNeedsFirstsFeelingsFilmBitsMy OwnNovelOughtMy WayWorkspace Author:William Monahan
“But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based on like, 100 novels. They're just fantastic. They're set in the '60s. A lot of the visual inspiration definitely came from 1960 James Bond movies and 'OSS 177' and also 'Pink Panther' movies.” ThinkingMadeBookInspirationFilmDarkNovelOriginalsSexyMade ItFantasticVisualsSpy1960sNestsAssassinsPanthersHelmCairoBond MovieJames Bond MoviePink Panther Author:Adam Reed
“I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project.” StillsIdeasFilmActorsNovelDevelopmentCoupleProjectsDrawingComicCollaborationPencilsGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Jade Hassoune
“I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.” WorldWantStatesFilmNovelAlbums Author:Colin Stetson
“I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.” KnowsYearsMadeBookLastsFilmNovelParticularWinterBonesBrownLast YearTerrificLarryGood FilmsPollock Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the more colors you have to a film the better. The more genres, the more people will like it. I like relating to the whole general speaking public. The script itself is 99 pages but the novel it is based on is 600. I had to leave a lot of stuff out of the script. I had a limitation of what I could present on the big screen.” PeopleThinkingTwoWholeBigsFilmThreeAsksStuffLinesNovelComedyColorDramaPagesScriptsScreensLimitationGenreAsk MeBig Screen Author:Tommy Wiseau
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.” TryingStoriesFilmTurnsFeltNovel Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.” WritingTryingTwoBookDifferentRememberFilmNovelFaithfulDifferent ThingsNo PointBeing Faithful Author:William S. Burroughs
“I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.” FilmTurnsNovelSuccessfulTelevisionDramaSeries Author:William Golding
“The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.” IfsKnowsKindBookFilmNovelMaterialsSourceComicComic BookTypicalGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Ryan Reynolds