A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
Ellsworth Huntington

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
Jenny Agutter

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
Gordon Getty

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
Richard Donner

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
John Simon

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Frank Darabont

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Walter Salles

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.
Stephen Sondheim

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould