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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

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

There are very few films that work like a novel.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.