I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.
Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning. - Simon Beaufoy
Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
- Simon Beaufoy
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… - Simon Beaufoy
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…
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. - Simon Beaufoy
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. - Simon Beaufoy
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
One doesn’t question a miracle. - Simon Beaufoy
One doesn’t question a miracle.
There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat. - Simon Beaufoy
There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. - Simon Beaufoy
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what… - Simon Beaufoy
I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what…
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes wa… - Simon Beaufoy
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes wa…
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