Kelise
Maester
I'm the odd one in that I don't watch movies much at all, so I don't think I myself will be directly influenced by how I write. I of course will be secondly influenced as I read, and those authors may themselves have been influenced, but that's about it.
It does make a huge difference to some authors. Pick someone who started writing a series, then got a movie deal while still writing the last books. Those have scenes written almost directly for how they should be shown in a movie, rather than for a reader of the novel. The last few books of Harry Potter are one example. Twilight, uh. I read somewhere that the author 'wrote them like a movie because she got it all from a dream, which is like a movie in her head.' There's probably a heap more out there too.
It does make a huge difference to some authors. Pick someone who started writing a series, then got a movie deal while still writing the last books. Those have scenes written almost directly for how they should be shown in a movie, rather than for a reader of the novel. The last few books of Harry Potter are one example. Twilight, uh. I read somewhere that the author 'wrote them like a movie because she got it all from a dream, which is like a movie in her head.' There's probably a heap more out there too.