I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. Christopher Hampton filmloveword Change image and share on social
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Christopher Hampton adaptbadbook Change image and share on social
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. Christopher Hampton allyartbelief share on social
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. Christopher Hampton decadencefeeblesophistication Change image and share on social
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. Christopher Hampton adaptationatonementcouple Change image and share on social
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. Christopher Hampton dividefalselygroup Change image and share on social
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. Christopher Hampton changedramaticendanger Change image and share on social
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine. Christopher Hampton ashamedcourtmine Change image and share on social
