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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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" 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. "

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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! "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Money

Motivation

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

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

" Miley Cyrus twerking - is that really a model for your kids? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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Late

Heritage

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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Doing

Deep

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things? "