I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.


Interview with Peter Stone (winter 1981), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series (1984), p. 338.


I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.