Simon Beaufoy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.”

“In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.”

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

“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.”

“I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'”