Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

- Simon Beaufoy

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

- 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

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

- 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.

- Simon Beaufoy

One doesn’t question a miracle.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Simon Beaufoy