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I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

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

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

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

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

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

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