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All Quotes by author - 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 lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because I made up the title! "
Become
Everyone
Person
" 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 watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. "
Music
Growing Up
Child
" Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills. "
Being Rich
Always
Write
" British audiences are toughest on British films. So often, a British film is the last thing they want to see. If you please them, you really know you've made an impact. "
Impact
Film
You
" Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title. "
Loved
Well
Title
" Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones. "
People
Overcome
Need
" For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. "
Small
Tradition
Way
" 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 comes out in the writing. "
Believe
Positive
Powerful
" If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse. "
Out
Morning
Kind
" 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 one of those statues. "
Win
You
Want
" If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic. "
America
Enough
Fire
" 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 one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.' "
Go
Doing
Deep
" 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 say it's impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.' I think it's an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible. "
Nature
Amazing
Faith
" I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold. "
Money
Motivation
Me
" I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. "
Place
Training
Start
" I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things? "
People
Extraordinary
Doing
" 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. "
Uncle
Wedding
Like
" I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. "
Feel
Sense
Lucky
" India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. "
Pride
Heart
Romantic
" In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly. "
Change
People
Looking
" In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people. "
Real
Face
Looks
" In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. "
People
Inspiration
Real
" I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are completely different beasts. "
Doing
Different
Just
" 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 with real people. "
People
Responsibility
Writing
" It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do. "
Freedom
You
True
" I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored. "
Never
Water
You
" I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things. "
Scary
Things
Storms
" Miley Cyrus twerking - is that really a model for your kids? "
Really
Your
Model
" Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. "
Drama
Messy
Life
" Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean. "
Because
Write
Stories
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