William Boyd Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

• Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

  William Boyd

  Lines, Nuance, Film

• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  William Boyd

  Views, Acting, Cameras

• There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

  William Boyd

  Suffering, Film

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