“Adaptation” quotes
(2002)
Spike Jonze
directed this movie
in 2002
Title Adaptation
Original title Adaptation.
Year 2002
Director Spike Jonze
Genre Drama, Comedy, Crime
Original title Adaptation.
Year 2002
Director Spike Jonze
Genre Drama, Comedy, Crime
Plot – Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is living a crisis because he cannot adapt for the cinema Susan Orlean's book 'The Orchid Thief'. In the meantime, his twin brother Donald is trying to write a story about a serial killer. After 13 weeks, while Donald has published his thriller, Charlie has reached a solution: the movie will talk about a screenwriter's crisis who doesn't know how to adapt a novel. Charlie travels to New York to meet Susan but, not having the courage to talk to her, asks Donald to replace him. The writer grants him a long interview, during which she tells how her curiosity made her meet the real John Laroche. Since her statements sound quite odd, the twins begin to tail her and discover that Susan has an affair with John. When they are spotted, their reaction is extremely violent.
All actors – Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson, Agnes NaDene Baddoo, Paul Fortune, Paul Jasmin, Lisa Love, Wendy Mogel, David O. Russell, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Stephenson, Bob Yerkes, Lynn Court, Roger E. Fanter, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Caron Colvett, Larry Krask, Ron Livingston, Brian Cox, John Etter, Ray Berrios, Nancy Lenehan, Susan Orlean, Lance Acord, Brigitte Bogle, Ryan Bosch, Curt Clendenin, Tony Collucci, Lathan Crowe, John Cusack, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, Jake Magnuson, John Malkovich, Rheagan Wallace
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“You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.”
“Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days.”
“People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fucking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the...” (continue)(continue reading)
“He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre, and we must find our originality within that genre.”
“Neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does.”
“I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new.”
“What I came to understand is that change is not a choice. Not for a species of plant, and not for me.”
“- Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.
- Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.
- Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine.”“I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that? Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to?”
“What's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid look exactly like a certain insect so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, spots another...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them.”
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