No one has a NAME in 'The Road.' Like Cormac MCCARTHY's NOVEL from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the VETERAN.

I worked initially in very low-budget INDEPENDENT films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the WRITING process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I FELT it really prepared me.

A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers FIRST and you can STUDY them on film to SEE how they adapted the TECHNIQUES.

I'm never one to care too much if my WORK BECOMES adapted; I make COMIC books.

The SPEED with which MODERN SOCIETY has adapted to accommodate the world's vast SPECTRUM of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.

If you THINK about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel LIKE enough. There's always too much cut out in the END. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out STUFF that should be in there.

My first BOOK, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in HOLLYWOOD, pitched a few THINGS, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with SEEING 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the POETS' as a script.

'The STAND' was GREAT. Adapted by Stephen KING from his MASSIVE BOOK.

When I began playing the lute, in 1950 there were not too many lutenists around. I had to work HARD, writing out music in MUSEUMS and LIBRARIES. It was before the days of photocopying. And I had just PICKED up the lute, adapted my guitar technique to it and went from there.

Some WRITERS GET snooty about what happens when their BOOKS are adapted to film, but I don't FEEL that WAY.

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare ACROSS their CAREERS. 'The AUTOBIOGRAPHY of GENERAL Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir EVER written.

I've NEVER ACTUALLY DIRECTED ANYTHING I haven't MADE up. I've never adapted anything.

When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun THING to do, just because it's a KIND of WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE.

All you can HOPE for when you get a BOOK adapted for TV is that you get a good ACTOR and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'