I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le CarreI was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.
John le CarreHaving your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John le Carre