Words matter. These are the best Adaptation Quotes from famous people such as Fred, Ernst Haeckel, Lynne Ramsay, Pete Docter, Raul Jimenez, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.
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.
My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.
Every time you recall a memory, you’re basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations.
In Madrid I lived quietly and then Lisbon cost me more. Language was a subject and adaptation was slow, but getting to Wolverhampton was radical. It gave me peace of mind. There I can go as if nothing to make my life. People approach, with respect, to tell me that they are happy with me.
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels – we always know the story.
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it’s not your original work: you’re interpreting. With ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I’ve since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.
‘An Inspector Calls’ is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.
I’m a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it’s not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there’s a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I’m thinking. I’m not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.
A screenplay adaptation of my ‘Punktown’ novel ‘Health Agent’ has been making the rounds. The screenplay was written by my friend, singer/songwriter Walter Egan of ‘Magnet & Steel’ fame!
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters – in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters – Bond was the movies’ first big-budget franchise superhero.
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you’ll see better movie adaptations.
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don’t envision something as cinema at all, you know?
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.
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
It’s terrible for people when they really love a book and there’s an adaptation and they don’t like it, because it’s almost like you have this personal connection to the original material.
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are climate sensitive. For example, wheat is a climate sensitive crop, while rice shows a wide range of adaptation in terms of growing conditions.
If you write an original, it’s like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it’s like the oil well’s on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of ‘Spartacus’ in the titular role.
Any adaptation – and I’ve done three in my career. I did ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Hugo’ and ‘Coriolanus.’ It’s important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices – you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film ‘Kaakha Kaakha.’ I declined the offer.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel’s fans, and blighted my reputation forever.
Curiously enough man’s body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.
I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but ‘Little Women’ has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic.
The things I have sold to film, I’ve sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven’t sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
It’s very important to understand that the ‘Talk’ piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
I was halfway through a rough draft of ‘The Sisters Brothers’ when it came time to start the ‘Terri’ adaptation.
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I’ve always been able to separate books I’ve loved from their movies, no matter how the film turns out.
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij’s ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of ‘Evening’ gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: ‘I’m gonna make that movie.’
When you’re making an adaptation, you have to make content for the fans; otherwise, you’ll get something that won’t even be accepted by the mainstream. You want to make something that the fans will approve and the mainstream will enjoy.
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what’s called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
You can’t sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.
The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature’s handiwork.
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.
