I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.
It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.
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.
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.