The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.