Story Reimagining Quotes

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.

You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

It was great, because as far as playing such an iconic character that Cinderella is from the Disney world, walking into such a raw and authentic environment - even though it's the real world, and it's Jacinda, it's still Cinderella that's being cursed, and now she's in the real world as Jacinda.

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.