Beaufoy Quotes

#1. I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.

A.R. Rahman

#2. What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Maurice Sendak

#3. 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

#4. You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

Simon Beaufoy

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

Simon Beaufoy

#6. I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

Rachel Kushner

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

Simon Beaufoy

#8. At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

Sandra Lerner

#9. 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.

Simon Beaufoy

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

Simon Beaufoy

#11. It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.

Andrew Barger

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

Simon Beaufoy

#13. The difference between structuralism and existentialism is simple: the world-constituting 'I' of existentialism is displaced by the linguistic relation between signifier and signified.

Stephen Trombley

#14. Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

Rachael Bermingham

#15. It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

Rachel Bloom

#16. All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up - like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me - Thomas. As in Edison.

Anonymous

#17. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Andrew Solomon

#18. I have no words - alas! - to tell
The loveliness of loving well!

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. They say crying makes the heart lighter

Simon Beaufoy

#20. What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

Simon Beaufoy

#21. Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

Mervyn Peake

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

Simon Beaufoy

#23. The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers.

Eric Schneiderman

#24. 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

#25. Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

Simon Beaufoy

#26. He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Al Franken

#27. 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

#28. 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.'

Simon Beaufoy

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

Simon Beaufoy

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

Simon Beaufoy

#31. One doesn't question a miracle.

Simon Beaufoy

#32. Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

W. Mitchell

#33. For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Simon Beaufoy

#34. Who won the 2004 World Series?"
She shrugged, "The Yankees?"
"The Yankees? And you claim to be an American?" He enjoyed rubbing it in after her attitude about Harrisburg. "It was the Red Sox. The year they broke the curse.

Brandon Mull