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Christopher Hampton [1946-0] British

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Playwright

Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.		101
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.		102
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?	Famous, Happiness, Marriage	103
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.		104
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.		105
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.		106
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.		107
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.		108
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.		109
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.		110
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.		111
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.		112
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.		113
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.		114
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.		115
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.		116
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.		117
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.		118

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