Christopher Hampton

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

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.

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

I love Hindi films.

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

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.