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" Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills. "
Simon Beaufoy
Being Rich
Always
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" In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly. "
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" Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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" Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean. "
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" I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things. "
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" Miley Cyrus twerking - is that really a model for your kids? "
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" 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! "
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" It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do. "
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" Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title. "
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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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" If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things? "
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" When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free. "
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" The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour. "
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" 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. "
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