Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.
If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.
My job is called adaptation. It's always about adapting to new situations, but the core team is going to be the same.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
Why did I choose Arsenal rather than Chelsea? Because it is a club I love, and I thought it would be easier for my adaptation.
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I'm adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.
'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.
The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.
Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.
Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.