I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

- Charles Dance

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

- Dick Fosbury

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

- Harmony Korine

When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

- Maisie Williams

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

- Pema Chodron

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

- Susan Hill

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

- Tamara Feldman