Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSLis a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisonsand also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 January 1946
CityFaial Island, Portugal
done film known
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
art disappointment numbers
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
asking critics feels thinks writer
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
people
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
critics feels thinks
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
lying thinking deception
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.
giving
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
thinking kind film
I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
lying believe two
You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
men thinking belief
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.
men thinking television
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
book successful film
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.