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When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

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.

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.'

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

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