Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are completely different beasts.

A biopic teaches you a lot.

I would love to act in a film if it is based on my life. But then it all depends on who is making it and how much time it would require for me to shoot.

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Films are always different from books.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.