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
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.
film moments wanted
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
book successful film
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
book film ifs
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
done film known
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
changed dramatic endangered films kinds
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.
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.
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.