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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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