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I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

~Bryan Lee O'Malley

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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

~Cary Fowler

Topics: Adaptation Change Diversity Domesticated Fewer Game Less Life Means Options Requirement Survival Wild

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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.

~Cary Fowler

Topics: Adaptation Agricultural Allow Challenges Change Climate Climate Change Conserve Context Crop Crops Diversity Evolution Global Other Our Trust Will Work

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I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

~Cassandra Clare

Topics: Adaptation Bad Bad Movie Because Believe Book Experience Firmly Get Good Good Movie Movie Onto Risking Screen See Translated Without Wonderful Wonderful Experience World Worth Worth It You Your

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A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

~Charles Dance

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'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

~Charles J. Shields

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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.

~Christopher Hampton

Topics: Adaptation Atonement Couple Down Every Get Lot Make Movies Novels Now Now And Then People Point Reading Sent Since Sitting Them Then Think Will Work

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To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

~Christopher Mcquarrie

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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

~Damien Chazelle

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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

~Dana Brunetti

Topics: Adaptation Always Book Doing Face Issue Mind Theater You

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