"I can't think of any one film..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
“I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.”
“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”
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“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.”
“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.”
“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”