Stephen Moyer Quotes

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

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 thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.

It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?

I don't read fiction.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.

We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.