Adaptation Quotes - Page 9

• I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Loneliness, Book

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

  Curtis Hanson

  Book, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com. May 24, 2016.

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• I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, People, Grumpy

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• In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.

  Rod Serling

  Cutting, Trying, Pieces

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

  Hyman Rickover

  Men, Engineering, Clients

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

  Ernst Haeckel

  Views, Law, Opposites

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• Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

  Gary A. Klein

  Evolution, Driven, Force

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• To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Media, Crime, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.

  Raul Garcia

  Stories, Members, Reader

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Cutting, Tennis

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• A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, World, Wonderful

  Interview with Helen Earnshaw, www.malextra.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.

  Pope Paul VI

  Creativity, Giving, Branches

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• I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is.  I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it

  Bruce Bruce

  Believe, Mean, Average

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• ...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Brain, Too Much Power, Natural

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

  Donald Johanson

  People, Half, Today

  "Anthropologist Donald Johanson On 'Lucy's Legacy'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 6, 2009.

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• What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.

  Squarepusher

  Past, Shaving, Sometimes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future. It would also ensure that, if at some point in the future, a real catastrophe, whether human-induced or otherwise (including climate change), does loom on the horizon, humanity would be in a better position to address it.

  Julian Morris

  Real, Adoption, Humanity

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• Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

  Leilani Munter

  Our Generation, Survival, Generations

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

  Lewis Mumford

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

  Len Wein

  Book, Worry, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Extinction, Way, Blind

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• Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Drama, Eye, Epic

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• The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

  Octavio Paz

  Mother, School, Reality

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.25, Grove Press

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