Simon Beaufoy Quotes

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• They say crying makes the heart lighter
• I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to…
• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about…
• Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
• India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
• 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 and…
• 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 minutes…
• Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
• For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
• In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
• I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It…

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