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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you don’t have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that’s kind of a curse. Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills. Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things? Simon Beaufoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
