Allison Pearson Quotes

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

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

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

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

Films are always different from books.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

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

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.