Writing Quotes by Christopher Hampton

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

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

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

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

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

— Christopher Hampton

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

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

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

— Christopher Hampton

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

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

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