Oscar Quote by Simon Beaufoy

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

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

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

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

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

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

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

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

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

— Simon Beaufoy

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

— Simon Beaufoy

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

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery…

— Simon Beaufoy