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Most Of The Books That I've Adapted I'm Doing Because I Love The Book And I Feel Like It's A Great Work Of Art In Itself, And When It's A Great Book I Feel As A Director Or A Writer That I Have A Responsibility To Rise To The Level Of The Original. It Makes Me Try To Reach Higher.

If You Just Read The Book, You're Taking In The Narrative, You're Taking In The Characters, You're Understanding It In A Certain Way. If You Make A Movie It's Really An Act Of Translation.

I Loved The Book [the Adderall Diaries] I Optioned It, I Think Some Years Ago. But There's A Lot Of Different Threads In The Book. It Starts Off As One Thing, Where He's Trying To Cover This Murder Trial, And Then His Own Life Starts To Impinge On That, So It Becomes Something Else. I Found That Fascinating.

In A Movie, A Book, Or A Play, A Character Doesn't Live In A Vacuum. She Is Subject To Pressures From The World Outside Of Her, Just Like We Are In Life. These Pressures And Circumstances Shape Character. Who Your Parents Are Determines Your Genetic Make Up: Your Skin Color, Your Sex, Your Height, Weight. Where You Are Raised Does Affect Your Worldview Either Positively Or Negatively, Your Accent. Your Economic Class Affects Where You Go To School, What You Eat, Where You Sleep.

Almost All The Movies I've Directed Are Adaptations. And I Think What I Found When I Went To Film School, Where They Try To Push You To Find Your Voice Or Your Thing, Is That I Got A Lot Of Things Out Of Adaptations.