51 Quotes by Simon Beaufoy

Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events with real people.

It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.