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There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

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

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

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

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

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

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.