Christopher Hampton

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

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

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I love Hindi films.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.