I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.