I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
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.
I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.
I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.
You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.
It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
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.
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
