John le Carré + Richard Price

“Having your book turned into a movie,” John le Carré, a spy novelist, once complained, “is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.”

John le Carré

This is the immutable law of the business: The only screenplays that aren’t tampered with are the ones that aren’t made. A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Everything else — just tear that motherfucker apart.

Richard Price