Quotes by Simon Beaufoy - Page 1

One doesn’t question a miracle.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
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They say crying makes the heart lighter
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Cry
Heart
Lighters
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Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
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Character
Discovering
Moving
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I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.
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Electric
Scary
Storms
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Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
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Drama
Life Is
Messy
Real
Real Life
Version
Shaped
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'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.
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Monty
Feature
Skilled
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I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
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Cold
Leaves
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You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.
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Interconnected
People Way Live
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I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?
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Extraordinary Things
Not Interested
Normal People
Superheroes
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If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.
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Curse
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In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
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Inspiration
Look People Real
Real People
Trial
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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Desks
Doom
Lucky
Screenwriting
Desk
Rarely
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I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Filmmaker
Documentary
Real People
Real Place
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Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Being Rich
Bills
Disastrous
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Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Repressed
Love Stories
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Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Monty
Title
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It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
True Story
Your Freedom
Weird Thing
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In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Life Change Movies
Unlike
Slowly
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India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Romantic
Generosity
Heart
India
Massive
Pride
Sentimentality
Desperately
Utterly
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The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.
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Fascination
Poorest
People Rich Poor
Rich People Poor
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Wedding
Embarrassing
Uncle
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Bored
Landscape
Ever-Changing
Near
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There isnt 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 / Screenwriter
War
Issues
Pigs
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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.
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Cold
Cold War
Crisis
Global Warming
Pigs
Threat
War World Important
Bay
Important Issue
Warming
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Inspiration
Midst
Uncertainty
Real People
Recession
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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 / Screenwriter
Lovely
Statues
Nominated
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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
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British
Delicate
Screenwriting
Tradition
Way
Naturalistic
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Bollywood
Sophisticated
Arrow
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When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Arcs
Perfect
Real
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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.
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Arc
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Human Spirit
Innately
Positive Thing
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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 / Screenwriter
Disservice
Wholesale
Beasts
Work Doing Because
Onto
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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.
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Awake
Huge Responsibility
Real People
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Please
Toughest
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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.
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Literal
Metaphorical
Overcome
Boulder
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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 / Screenwriter
Adapting
Book
Levels
Sides
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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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Fairy
Fairy Tale
Millionaire
Slums
Wandering
Picking
Tale
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Generic
Scripts
Effectively
Hire
Programme
Studio System
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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.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Humanity
Monty
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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!
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Clever
Irritated
Lovely
Monty
Recognised
Title
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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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Britain
Factories
Heavy
Heritage
Humiliation
Labour
Surgery
Visible
Battlefield
Buildings
Recession
Ripping
Victims
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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 / Screenwriter
Filmmaking
Importance
Important
Long
People
Authentic
Filmmaking Process
Stayed
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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.
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Admiration
Improbable
Feeds
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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 / Screenwriter
Bollywood
Bunch
Children
Estates
Growing Up
Housing
Mother
Mountain
Swiss
Village
Yorkshire
Dancers
Mothers
Occasionally
Proper
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I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.
Simon Beaufoy / Screenwriter
Like Love
People
Weather
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