"I've got my little movie that runs in my head. And I'm kind of afraid that will be changed or wiped out by what somebody else might do with it. And it is sort of thrilling and creepy, because now the characters have an existence apart from me."
— Audrey Niffenegger on the prospect of a film adaptation of her novel The Time Traveler's Wife
"I've never read the Neverending Story book, I actually keep forgetting there is a book."
"I was in comics? How embarrassing."
— Sam, Poker Night 2
Dante: Wait... The Lord of the Rings was a BOOK?
Sheldon: Three books, actually. 900 pages of fantastic adventure. You should read them.
(Sheldon gives Dante the books. Dante just stares at them in confusion)
Sheldon: You're not gonna read those, are you?
Dante: Yes, well, see... a MOVIE has been made.
— Sheldon
[Discussing Earthworm Jim]
Duck: There's a cartoon now?!
C.C.: It's … been around for a while, actually.
Koneko: And yes, it's every bit as messed up as the video game on which it's based.
C.C.: There's a video game now?!
Duck: There's a cartoon now?!
C.C.: It's … been around for a while, actually.
Koneko: And yes, it's every bit as messed up as the video game on which it's based.
C.C.: There's a video game now?!
[Discussing hostage demands]
Rex: Sixty-seven copies of Moby-Dick.
Suzzi: The movie or the book?
Rex: They made a book outta that?
Suzzi: I think so…
Rex: Sixty-seven copies of Moby-Dick.
Suzzi: The movie or the book?
Rex: They made a book outta that?
Suzzi: I think so…
— Airheads
"And YOU thought it only existed as a series of TV cartoons, DIDN'T you?? It began with this."
— Platypus Comix on U.S. Acres
"The most common statement from the press has been "Move over, Twilight!"....as if the Hunger Games books hadn't been out for years already. Does every aspect of literary success just not count until you get your movie?"
The deep penetration and popularity of the Disney representations of these traditional stories and figures tends to turn the Disney version into the canonical one in the public eye. … The same thing has occurred with more modern source material[…]
— Rational Wiki on
Disney's history of appropriating literary sources as the bases for its animated films and supplanting them in the public eye
Disney's history of appropriating literary sources as the bases for its animated films and supplanting them in the public eyeI pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore…
— Trent Reznor, on Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt"
Critic: (reading) "We looked, then we saw him step in on the mat. We looked, and we saw him: The Cat in the Hat."
Evilina: Wait, why does he look like a cat?
Critic: ...Because he's a cat.
Evilina: No, that's not what looks like! He's supposed to be scary and weird and constantly out of breath.
Critic: What?
Evilina: And why is it all in rhyme?
Critic: Wh—Because it's Dr. Seuss! Everything he does is in rhyme!
Evilina: No, he's only supposed to rhyme once in a while! And where's all the subplots? And in-jokes? And advertisements? And forced morals? And penis innuendos?
Critic: What the fuck are you talking about?!
—The Nostalgia Critic, reviewing The Cat in the Hat
Mera: You risked our lives based on something you read in a children's book?
Aquaman: It's a book? How 'bout that? I got it from the movie.
Aquaman: It's a book? How 'bout that? I got it from the movie.
Soren: Created in 1913, The Little Mermaid is a world-famous icon of Denmark.
is a world-famous icon of Denmark.Bart: No, The Little Mermaid was created by Disney, right before he created Spider-Man and Star Wars.
Soren: This is the real Little Mermaid, and she was a very tragic figure.
Bart: What about her buddy, the crab?
Soren: There was no crab!
Bart: He was the only funny thing in it!
Homer: Got that right.
—The Simpsons, "Throw Grampa from the Dane"
