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With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.

Film is very condensed.

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

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.