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As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.