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I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer - a movie is basically an abridgment of a book - and because books are internal. But they are incredibly powerful. The visual format is, you know, amazing.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.