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! ↗
I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did. ↗
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. ↗