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Christopher Hampton

I’m ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

I love films. If I’d known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

Often I think the novels I read won’t make very good movies – I better not say which I’m looking at for potential films! – but it’s nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

It’s great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

I like L.A., but I think what’s changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

There was a moment in the early ’80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you’ve got to get it right.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

– Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

– Christopher Hampton

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