Christopher Hampton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Christopher Hampton quotes and sayings page 2 (78 year old playwright). These are the last 8 out of 18 quotes we have for him.
“I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.”
“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
“I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.”
“If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.”
“I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.”
“There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.”
“Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.”
“Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.”
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