Author: Simon Beaufoy

Quotes

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

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

- Simon Beaufoy

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.

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

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

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

- Simon Beaufoy

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.

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.

- Simon Beaufoy

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.

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

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.

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

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

- Simon Beaufoy

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.

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

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.

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.

- Simon Beaufoy

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