51 Quotes by Simon Beaufoy

One doesn’t question a miracle.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

They say crying makes the heart lighter.

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.

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

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.’

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.