I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring..

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've….

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations..

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things..

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have b….

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines..

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience..

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all ….

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation..

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization..

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations..

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet anoth….

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future..

One learns to itch where one can scratch..

I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to….

Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did….

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?.