Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

• To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Blessed, Hollywood

  "Author Talk: The Notebook". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.bookreporter.com. June, 2004.

• Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Fighting, Car

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Different, Stories, Film

• A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

• In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reality, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

• There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Cutting, Differences, Elements

  "Nicholas Sparks Wants to Work With Johnny Depp". Interview with Meggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. October 13, 2014.

• Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Three, Stories, Spirit

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

• Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Winning, Boss, Kitchen

  Source: collider.com

• You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Emotional, Needs, Enabling

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Source: collider.com

• Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, People, Historical

  Source: collider.com

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