A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
From Yann Martel
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
Cinema is incredibly concise.
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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