#adapting

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#adapting #between #both #change #even

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. ↗

— John Burns

#am #continue #doing #done #ever

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#adapting #anybody #books #enjoy #i

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#fun #go #keep #kind #times

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! ↗

— Ben Elton

#advice #again #anyone #away #learnt