Being Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image “Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being Books Books Optioned Happens Movie Movie Happens Never Optioned Movie Then Used Writers Writers Used Writing
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie. — Bruce Joel Rubin Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
