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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

— David Bowie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

— Steven Wright

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

— Michael Connelly

Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

— Watt Key

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

— Frank Darabont

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

— Patricia Highsmith

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

— Renny Harlin

I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.

— Romesh Gunesekera

From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

— Bryan Burrough

✗Opposing Perspectives

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

— Bernhard Schlink

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

— Todd McFarlane