I ran across this quote from Simon Pegg in a Premire article about his new film How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.

"A book is like an aid to your imagination, and a film is a surrogate for your imagination."
-Simon Pegg

Neat trick, saying a great deal with only a few words. Well done.

I don't think he's dissing movies or the audience here, though at first glance it may seem that way. Film puts you in the creative hands of lots of different people, from actors to the person who'd doing the lighting or adding in the sound effects, hopefully under one unifying vision.

The neat thing about books, though, is the way you become intimate with a good one thanks to the time and effort you put into it. It's yours, this private little world filled with friends the author helped you create. You marry books and settle down and raise a few ideas. Movies are intense one-night stands where she went alley-cat crazy on you.

Funny, both leave me standing there like Oliver Twist: Please, sir, I want some more.