Piers Anthony Quotes

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.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done - or, at least, dissatisfied.

I always wanted to direct a film.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It's about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.

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 make movies I want to see.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

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.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project.

There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.