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You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston. - Simon Beaufoy

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. - Simon Beaufoy

In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people. - Simon Beaufoy

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. - Simon Beaufoy

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way. - Simon Beaufoy

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.' - Simon Beaufoy

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. - Simon Beaufoy

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold. - Simon Beaufoy

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. - Simon Beaufoy

I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, 'I don't care if it can't happen. I don't care if you say it's impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.' I think it's an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible. - Simon Beaufoy

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones. - Simon Beaufoy

I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things. - Simon Beaufoy

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. - Simon Beaufoy

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things? - Simon Beaufoy

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I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding. - Simon Beaufoy

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. - Simon Beaufoy

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