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 lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the… — 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
