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It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you've got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch. -- Co. Create Online, 2-14-12 Alan Moore
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Graham Greene
Sam Wood quote: "We went into this with the utmost respect for the source..."
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change. Sam Wood
Terri Windling quote: "I have a great respect for the academics who are working with..."
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them. Terri Windling
With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?' Lena Headey
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. Al Yankovic
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. Jeff Koons
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. Edward Albee
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. John Bolton
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. Leon Redbone
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials. Colleen Atwood
So what I realized when I was a child was that if I were traveling as fast as light while holding a mirror before me, I would not see my image in the mirror, because as fast as the image of my face in light moved toward the mirror, why, just as fast would the mirror be moving away... It is a rather frightening idea, in fact, that if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected light such as a mirror. I would be like a ghost... E. L. Doctorow
Melita Norwood quote: "Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of..."
Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material. Melita Norwood
Lee H. Hamilton quote: "A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear..."
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. Lee H. Hamilton
We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. Ed Markey

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