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Simon Beaufoy

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can’t say what they really mean.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery – surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

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

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, ‘I don’t care if it can’t happen. I don’t care if you say it’s impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.’ I think it’s an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn’t work. They are completely different beasts.

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

After a while, you become really irritated that you’re not recognised as the person who wrote ‘The Full Monty.’ Everyone goes on about how lovely the characters are. That’s because they were written! ‘What a clever title.’ Yeah, that’s because I made up the title!

– Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy

Everyone’s got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it’s not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

– Simon Beaufoy

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