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I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.
-Sean Durkin
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I'm Interested In Adapting Books And All

Sean Durkin
I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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Personally i don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. i know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. i've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, i guess one of the issues is that i have to be in love with the thing i'm adapting before i do it. so that can cause a problem. you can be too scared of it. you could be too reverential. but at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. you're fixated for a reason. what's the reason? you try to get ahold of it.
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