“The movies are now old enough — we’ve had a century of movies — that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been interaction between the forms [of film and the novel]. And it has been both ways, and we tend to think of it only going one way, because there isn’t the specific act of adapting a film into a book. But there is, all the time, the more general act of writers being strongly influenced by things they’ve seen in movies, and wanting to do something like that in a book.”
Salman Rushdie discusses the the adaptation of novels into films, why free adaptations are better than strict adaptations (“infidelity is better,” he says, and after getting a laugh cites There Will Be Blood), the influence of film on his writing (including how his viewing of 8 1/2 influenced his writing of Midnight’s Children), why novelizations of films tend to be so wretched, and so forth.
One of the videos is here and the rest can be found in the related videos; there doesn’t seem to be any playlist as yet.
