There are very few films that work like a novel.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Films are always different from books.
I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
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