Optioned Quotes

#1. My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

Margaret Stohl

#2. I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Alice Hoffman

#3. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

Natasha Lyonne

#4. Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

Gavin Hood

#5. 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

Rick Yancey

#6. 'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

Kevin Barry

#7. My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.

Viola Davis

#8. Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

Gene Hackman

#9. When Lin optioned his book, Ron was relieved that the Founding Father who had the most dramatic and least appreciated life story would finally get his due - even though a rap musical was the last way that Ron had anticipated Hamilton getting it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#10. I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

Paul Haggis

#11. After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

Jim Evans

#12. Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

David Mitchell

#13. I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

Larry Bishop

#14. Well! I'm glad you didn't call him a buffoon." "Or pompous," Pauline added. "Or ignorant," Jeb chimed in. "Or an ass," Kaden said. "I didn't call him an ass." Rafe grunted. "You may as well have." Now

Mary E. Pearson

#15. Be interesting, be enthusiastic ... and don't talk too much.

Norman Vincent Peale

#16. I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy.

Onew

#17. Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work ... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Dennis Crowley

#18. Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

Andy Dick

#19. When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#20. We (pop stars) are people not androids. We've got views. I've got opinions and I don't see why I shouldn't use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

Roger Meddows Taylor

#21. I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

Fela Kuti

#22. A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

#23. Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

Veronica Roth

#24. Only by depending on God's power can we offer worship truly worthy of his honor.

Craig S. Keener

#25. Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.

Emil M. Cioran

#26. We make the things that matter, matter.

Teresa R. Funke

#27. it's closing time

Leonard Cohen