Top 34 Christopher Hampton Quotes
#1. I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
#3. Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'
Casey Affleck
#4. I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton
#5. Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along ... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.
John Colton
#6. I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.
John C. Calhoun
#7. I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton
#8. If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Christopher Hampton
#9. 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.
Christopher Hampton
#10. There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Christopher Hampton
#11. To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Christopher Hampton
#12. Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing
they begin to believe in anything.
Alistair Begg
#13. If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton
#14. I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton
#15. Put All of your Energy & Attention into Visualizing ... It's then that Doors Begin to Open for You
Wayne Dyer
#16. My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
Adam Sandler
#17. You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Christopher Hampton
#18. I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher Hampton
#20. That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.
James Buchanan
#21. It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
Christopher Hampton
#22. 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.
Christopher Hampton
#25. I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
Christopher Hampton
#26. But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities.
Louise Penny
#28. I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
Alan Rickman
#29. It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Christopher Hampton
#30. A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton
#31. There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
Christopher Hampton
#32. Crises are so valuable, in fact, that sometimes it's worth stirring up a sense of looming catastrophe rather than letting it die down.
Charles Duhigg
#33. God usually ignored us when asked for something, but he invariably granted what we feared.
Magda Szabo
#34. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.
Christopher Hampton
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