Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.