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“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”
“I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.”
“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.”
“In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it! To which I reply Well, why? I...”
“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we ...”
“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book: I wasn't blond, I wasn't tan, and neither was the actor. I also suddenly ...”
