Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSLis 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 Liaisonsand also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 January 1946
CityFaial Island, Portugal
birth court gave less royal sunday
The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.
people
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.
critics feels thinks
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
asking critics feels thinks writer
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
men thinking belief
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.
happiness religious moral
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
class decadence substitutes
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
thinking kind film
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.
husband thinking rivals
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
faces violence dignity
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
lying believe two
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.
men thinking television
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
lying thinking deception
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.
girl giving definitions
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.