Daily Inspiration Quote by Faye Dunaway

"God bless McNally" is Dunaway doing two things at once: paying respect and quietly drawing a boundary. The blessing is affectionate, but it also carries a faint sigh of professional realism. In Hollywood, praise is often a social lubricant; here it’s a preemptive shield. She’s signaling she’s not here to trash the source material or its author (Terrence McNally, with his reputation for sharp, theatrical writing), even as she tees up the real message: adaptation is a different sport.

The line flatters the text - "fantastic stuff" - while refusing the fantasy that great writing automatically becomes a great film. "It’s got...in it" is telling: the value is embedded, not already shaped for cinema. Stage work can live on language, rhythm, and containment; film demands externalization, momentum, images that do narrative work without leaning on dialogue as a crutch. Dunaway’s phrasing implies she’s encountered the gap firsthand: the plot might be thorny, the tone too talky, the structure too episodic, the interiority too theatrical.

Context matters: Dunaway comes from an era of prestige acting where scripts were treated like literature, but she also survived the industry’s blunt machinery. The quote reads like an actress-producer’s weather report - part loyalty, part warning - aimed at anyone who thinks admiration equals feasibility. It’s a small, elegant reminder that "faithful" isn’t the same as "filmable", and that creative respect sometimes means admitting friction rather than forcing a conversion.