What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
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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.
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
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