Jennifer Konner Quotes

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

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.

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.

You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

I try to picture my books being acted out.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the script, and I saw it in my head in some other way. Which is a lot like what happens when they're writing a movie that's based on a book - I'm like, 'Ah! He doesn't have a beard.' You have these visions in your head about it.

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.