This picture is accurate 99% of the time. There have been cases where a good scriptwriter, a brilliant director and a cast of talented actors have turned a mediocre book into a cinematic masterpiece, but a good book is always superior to any film based on it. The depth of a good book turned into a movie is limited by the director's interpretation of the story, but when we read it ourselves, our imagination takes us to depths no director will ever know...
