I love films. If I’d known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
I like L.A., but I think what’s changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
It’s great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
There was a moment in the early ’80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
