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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are very few films that work like a novel.
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.