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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.