"For me, as a writer who comes from……" — 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."
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11 Quotes by Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy has 11 quotes on this site.
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They say crying makes the heart lighter
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I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at…
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I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's…
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Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
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India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
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What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work…
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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the…
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Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
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In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
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I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you…
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More British Quotes
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything…
— David Attenborough
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
— Beck
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
— Tony Benn
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of…
— Sade Adu
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and…
— Richard Branson
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is…
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