Adaptation quotes

“Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't fit in with most kids at schools. They thought I was strange, so they made me feel like a stranger.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

- Joseph Turner White: How do I do a film called "The Old Mill" when I don't have an old mill?
- Ann Black: Well, first you've got to change the title.
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Joseph Turner White
Rebecca Pidgeon - Ann

“- Lucien Cordier: Can you excuse a pole for filling a hole? It may squash some rabbits, but is it the pole's fault if it fits that hole?
- George Le Peron: But a pole is an inanimate object.
- Lucien Cordier: Aren't we all more or less inanimate?
- George Le Peron: What do you mean?
- Lucien Cordier: Who knows!”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

“You are entering a new world where you will certainly be successful because you have knowledge. Study has always been our religious duty as jews. Our exclusion from society has given us an ability to adapt to others and to sense connections between things that seem diverse.”
Ralph Fiennes - Ignatz Sonnenschein

“The only problem with fear is that it largely has become inappropriate and non-adaptive.”
Liam Neeson - Dr. David Marrow

“- Dr. Franz Tobel: You would take the Nazis' own car?
- Sherlock Holmes: One must adapt oneself to the tools at hand.”
William Post Jr. - Dr. Franz Tobel
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes