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I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

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

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

There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books.

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.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in 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.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.