There's an old saying in Hollywood that a director can ruin a book and make a great movie or stay faithful to the book and make a terrible movie--evidence of the sticky situation many directors have when shooting a film based on a novel.
好萊塢有種說法是，「導演可以選擇毀掉原著拍部好電影，或者忠於原著拍部爛片，」顯示不少導演對原著小說是又愛又恨。