"The
book is a kind of soulful meditation on passion and love sickness
and subcultures and belonging. Those aren?t very typical Hollywood
themes."
--
Writer Susan Orlean (The
Orchid Thief)
"Adaptation
is about art being challenging and motion pictures being challenging.
It?s about how alienated people are from each other in our contemporary
culture, about how hard it is to have love in your life and how
hard it is to connect with people, to be honest and open. It?s
a movie about being demanding of yourself and admitting to the
basic human frailties and yet, being able to adapt to all the
curve balls that life throws your way."
--
Producer Edward Saxon
"In
Adaptation, I tried to work through some ideas. What I
wanted to end up with, though, was a discussion rather than a
conclusion."
--
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman
"I
suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I wanted to know
what it feels like to care about something passionately?"
--
Susan Orlean, author The Orchid Thief
"The
story deals with peoples? obsessions and perhaps the fact that
some of us don?t fully realize what we want out of life, because
of the restrictions we put on ourselves."
--
Chris Cooper (John Laroche)
ON
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY (BELONGING)
There
can be no unity, no delight of love, no harmony, no good in being,
where there is but one. Two at least are needed for oneness.
-- GEORGE MACDONALD (1824–1905)
Weak
things united become strong.
-- PROVERB
Unity
creates strength.
-- FRENCH PROVERB
ON HUMAN WEAKNESS
There
are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating
themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
-- WILLA SIBERT CATHER (1873–1947)
Human
nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one
side, over he topples on the other side.
-- MARTIN LUTHER (1483–1546)
Humanity,
let us say, is like people packed in an automobile that is travelling
downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old
child. The signposts along the way are all marked Progress.
-- LORD DUNSANY (1906–
)
If
you treat men the way they are, you never improve them. If you
treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
-- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
(1749–1832)
