Top Adaptations Quotes
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
Jenny Agutter
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
Richard Donner
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Walter Salles
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
Stephen Sondheim
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Ralph Fiennes 
Andrzej Wajda 
Ellsworth Huntington 
Walter Salles 
Stephen Jay Gould 
Richard Donner All Adaptations Quotes
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
Jenny Agutter 
76% of people like this quote
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
Richard Donner
60% of people like this quote
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes
54% of people like this quote
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Walter Salles
52% of people like this quote
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda
49% of people like this quote
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
Stephen Sondheim
49% of people like this quote
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont
48% of people like this quote
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
Ellsworth Huntington
46% of people like this quote
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould
46% of people like this quote