Author: Simon Beaufoy

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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