I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films!… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
