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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.

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

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.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

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

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.

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.