51 Quotes by Simon Beaufoy

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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