Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can’t say what they really mean. Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Everyone hated the title ‘The Full Monty’ until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title. Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place. Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
