'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.