Unfilmable Quotes

#1. I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic ... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

Joe Carnahan

#2. I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

Rick Moody

#3. I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

Daniel Handler

#4. Nothing is unfilmable.

Salman Rushdie

#5. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

Annalee Newitz

#7. Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

Heather Hart

#8. Property has ever been a fluid concept
just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie Antoinette's escritoire.

Anna Godbersen

#9. Missouri Ann ate her bit of orange slowly. "Tastes like summer," she said.

Sandra Dallas

#10. It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!' The

Lewis Carroll

#11. People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Johnny Cash

#12. Everything seems to be working. Except me. I'm broken.

Julie Anne Peters