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" 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. "

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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! "

" Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills. "

" When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat. "

" You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston. "

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

" 'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it. "

" Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title. "

" I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold. "

" I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination. "

" If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse. "

" In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. "

" It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do. "

" 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 heart. "

" I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. "

" When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free. "

" You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way. "

" 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. "

" I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things. "

" In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly. "