"I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book."

Movies, Books, Hurt, Worry

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book."

Exlpore more Movies quotes

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Majority

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Movies, Life, People, Career

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

Antonio Banderas, Spanish Actor

Movies, Life, Forget, Rest

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Movies, Being, Reason

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

Jill Robinson, American Novelist

Movies, Acting, America, Reason

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

Ben Affleck, American Actor

Movies, Being, President, states

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Movies, Daughter, Basketball, Coach

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Movies, Canada, Film, Want

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Movies, Canada, Danger

Explore more quotes by Paul Auster

"I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films."

Life, Thought, Film

"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."

Job, Jobs

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."

Food, Poetry, Money, Work

"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."

Writing, End, Night, Voice, Wrong

"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."

Money, Time, Ambition, Children

"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."

Reading, Read

"I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book."

Movies, Books, Hurt, Worry

"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."

Aspiration, Feet, Sky

"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."

People, Day

"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went."

Poetry, America, Paris