Adaptation Quotes

On reshaping a story without losing what made it work.

These adaptation quotes come straight from filmmakers who wrestled a novel or an earlier film into a new language, from a Tamil retelling to a Hindi version that got turned down. After a source is chosen, the real work of adaptation begins.


Read on for a reminder that adaptation is not only a film-industry skill: it runs through Belief systems and even biology, wherever something old is reshaped to survive somewhere new.