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.
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Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.
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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.
