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• People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

  Lionel Shriver

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• The world hasn’t shrunk to a wedge.

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• One can even get used to living in Hell.

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• Wheat stalks heavy with grain learn how to bow their heads.

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• Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

  Christopher James Hampton

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• I’ve commissioned an adaptation of ‘The Jungle’, by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

  David Schwimmer

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• Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.

  David Benioff

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• Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

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• Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I’ve been involved with are pieces of work that I’m proud of, so I’m very happy for people to focus on them.

  Jenny Agutter

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• Curiously enough man’s body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

  Ellsworth Huntington

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• For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

  Ellsworth Huntington

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• I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

  Norman Jewison

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