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" '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. "

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

Simon Beaufoy

Pride

Heart

Romantic

" 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. "

Simon Beaufoy

Late

Heritage

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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.' "

Simon Beaufoy

Doing

Deep

" 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. "

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

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

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

Simon Beaufoy

Money

Motivation

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Simon Beaufoy

Uncle

Wedding

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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