Christopher Hampton Quotes

• My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

  Christopher Hampton

  Men, Thinking, Belief

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• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  Christopher Hampton

  Important, Scientist, Theory

  Christopher Hampton (1997). “Plays: Total eclipse [u.a.] - 1. publ”

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• Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

  Christopher Hampton

  Men, Thinking, Television

  1970 The Philanthropist.

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• 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.

  Christopher Hampton

  Lying, Believe, Two

  1970 The Philanthropist.

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• 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.

  Christopher Hampton

  Thinking, Kind, Film

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• 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

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

  "My week" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

  Christopher Hampton

  Real, Breathing, People

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Film, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

  Christopher Hampton

  Giving

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• 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.

  Christopher Hampton

  Lying, Thinking, Deception

  "Dangerous Liaisons". www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• 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

  Art, Disappointment, Numbers

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• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

  Christopher Hampton

  Faces, Violence, Ethics

  Christopher Hampton (1976). “Treats: A Play”, Samuel French

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• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  Christopher Hampton

  Husband, Thinking, Rivals

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

  Christopher Hampton

  Happiness, Religious, Seduction

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

  Christopher Hampton

  Play, Saws, Firsts

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• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

  Christopher Hampton

  Class, Decadence, Substitutes

  Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Done, Film, Known

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• There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Successful, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

  Christopher Hampton

  Film, Moments, Wanted

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• Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

  Christopher Hampton

  Nice, Thinking, Good Movie

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

  Christopher Hampton

  Girl, Giving, Definitions

  1974 Savages, sc.16.

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