I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, 'I don't care if it can't happen. I don't care if you… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
After a while, you become really irritated that you're not recognised as the person who wrote 'The Full Monty.' Everyone goes on about how… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
