Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

I don't read fiction at all.

I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.

When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always interested in reading the book, too.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

I don't very often read novels.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only one way to get it. You're going to actually have to be a reader.

As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've loved from their movies, no matter how the film turns out.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy.

My theory in the '90s was that I didn't want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce it to a 90-minute movie. The Emma Thompson-Ang Lee 'Sense and Sensibility' was beautiful, but other ones, I didn't think justice was being done. It's not a slam dunk to adapt these books.