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Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
Born: 1967
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Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. Simon Beaufoy
Life Real Life Drama Shaped Messy Real Version
Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills. Simon Beaufoy
Me Rich Pay Being Rich Would Would-Be Write Writer Disastrous Always Being Bills Needed
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. Simon Beaufoy
People Trial Rather Inspiration Look Real Times Than Real People Want Fiction
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. Simon Beaufoy
Music Single Few Drama Dancers Television Would Some Minutes About Proper Over Occasionally Housing Mothers Up Bunch Mountain Child Yorkshire Movie Happen After Estates Village Bollywood Growing Growing Up Swiss Switch Watching
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
Respect Treat Adapting Side Approach Guess Books Something Part Another Doing Go Different Them Deep Level Here
You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way. Simon Beaufoy
You People Live Way Some Without Interconnected Them Need
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. Simon Beaufoy
Positive You Writing Believe Positive Thing Out Spirit Powerful Like Human Just Being Whether Human Spirit Thing Innately
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. Simon Beaufoy
You People Training Documentary Got Real Real People Real Place Place Start Filmmaker
What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance. Simon Beaufoy
Work You Trust People Try Long Important Say Stayed Something Small Development Longer Like Importance Authentic Than Personal Same Process Much Keep Filmmaking Filmmaking Process
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. Simon Beaufoy
War World Important Cold Cold War Crisis Bay Threat More Global Global Warming Important Issue Pigs Issue Were Than Warming Even
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. Simon Beaufoy
You Experience Living Arc Perfect Make Real Subject Movie Based Away
If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse. Simon Beaufoy
Morning You Every Out Kind Something Bed Get Curse
'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. Simon Beaufoy
You People Millionaire Believe Starts Spending Months Slums Picking Tale Fairy Talking Fairy Tale Around Came Up Wandering Stories Place Really Two
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. Simon Beaufoy
You Win Say Those Statues Would Would-Be Nominated Been Want Lovely Ridiculous Oscar
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. Simon Beaufoy
Work You Fire Enough System Something Point Could Computer Write Writers Studio Studio System Almost Generic Until Got Hire Effectively America Get Where Scripts Programme
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. Simon Beaufoy
Life People Overcome Everyone Boulder Most Sort Another Got Metaphorical Literal Certainly Need
I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things. Simon Beaufoy
Mountains Scary Been Storms Electric Things
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! Simon Beaufoy
You Made Clever Become Everyone Monty Recognised Characters About Written Wrote Because How Yeah Were Up Person Goes After Irritated Lovely While Title Really Full Who
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. Simon Beaufoy
Work You Think Disservice Beasts Onto Because Doing Just Screen Different Novel Wholesale
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. Simon Beaufoy
Faith Nature You People Amazing Impossible Care Human Nature Think Say Admiration Ability Only Part Almost Feeds Am Go Huge Improbable Human Human Beings Happen Anyway Gonna Beings Belief
Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title. Simon Beaufoy
Everyone Saw Monty Hated Until Well Did Loved Title Then Really Full Film
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
Humiliation Become Heritage Recession Late Visible Battlefield Cities Ripping Factories Had Involved Buildings Surgery Up Very Labour Heavy Victims Victorian Across Britain
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. Simon Beaufoy
Me People Writing Events Responsibility Alive About Real Huge Huge Responsibility Real People Who Awake Keeps Thing Night
Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean. Simon Beaufoy
Love Say Write Writers Because Love Stories Repressed Stories Mean Really English

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