Mannie Fresh Quotes

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

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

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

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

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

It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who read the classic novel.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

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

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

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.'

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

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.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

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

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

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

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

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.