If it were a movie...

My book is not exactly the easiest book to make a movie of, but it could also be because I have not finished it yet.  Each chapter is a different story coming from the authors life and past experiences.  This book is nonfiction, therefore these are all true stories.  I was thinking if I were to make a movie out of this novel I would make the story line more choppy, showing different parts of the authors life on and off from past and present.  Now I would not be able to make this movie strictly off of this novel since, so far, most of the stories do not have relevance to one another.  Therefore I think it would be good to find, or possibly even make up a connection, between each story to lead to an over all theme or message.  Again, I could not go exactly by the novel.  David Sedaris is a pretty funny guy, so an actor that would play his part would have to be funny, such as Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, or Will Ferrell.  There are many other characters throughout his story, I do not know these characters personalities as well yet so I can not exactly name people who could play the roles of people such as his mother, and friend's mother, Patsy, ect.