Rod Serling Quotes

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.

It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

I really liked 'Premam,' and when we decided to remake it, our intention was never to make a better film.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.