40 Quotes by Christopher Hampton

The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

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.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

You see, 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.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

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.