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.
More Quotes by Simon Beaufoy
I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
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 watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.