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Simon Beaufoy Quotes

British - Writer | 1967 -

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

Life Drama Messy Real Real Life

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

People Doing Extraordinary Normal

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.

War World Cold Crisis Important

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.

Music Mountain Child Growing Up

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

Live People You Way Need Without

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.

Positive Writing Believe Powerful

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

Training People Start You Place Got

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

Me Rich Write Always Pay Being Rich

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Life Change People Looking Movies

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

Feel Desk Lucky Going Sense Like

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

Money Me Cold Motivation Excited

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Heart Romantic Generosity Fierce

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