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.
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.
- Simon Beaufoy
Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning. - Simon Beaufoy
Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
One doesn’t question a miracle. - Simon Beaufoy
One doesn’t question a miracle.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. - Simon Beaufoy
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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