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.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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.
It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
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.
Films are always different from books.
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'
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