But a good movie idea often comes out of a bad book.

We need a new movie idea, something happy and silly.

This is not one of the great wrong-headed movie ideas after all.

Make sure she doesn't have movie ideas about blood and guts.

She dropped out of college to scout Broadway for movie ideas.

Several years ago, my Hollywood agent told me that one good way to sell a movie idea was to come up with the ride first.

There had also been a few more movie ideas, but they were left out of the game.

"The movie idea we put into work today isn't going to be on the screen for more than a year and a half," he said.

What's left, except the shadow of a novel that must have seemed like a good movie idea at the time?

I'll whip up half a dozen truly great movie ideas in about 20 minutes!