40 Quotes by Christopher Hampton

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

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.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

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 find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

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.