Christopher Hampton Quotes

If I Had To Give A Definition Of Capitalism I Would Say: The Process Whereby American Girls Turn Into American Women.

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.

There Was A Moment In The Early '80s When I Wanted To Work On Films And Wanted To Live In L.a.

There Is A Sort Of Theory That You Should Adapt Bad Books Because They Always Make More Successful Films.

I Love Films. If I'd Known How To Get Into Or Do It From The Word Go, I Would Have Done That.

I Have Always Thought Of Sophistication As Rather A Feeble Substitute For Decadence.

I'm Ashamed To Say The First Play I Saw At The Royal Court Was Mine.

To Seduce A Woman Famous For Strict Morals, Religious Fervor And The Happiness Of Her Marriage: What Could Possibly Be More Prestigious?

I Think There's Something Degrading About Having A Husband For A Rival. It's Humiliating If You Fail And Commonplace If You Succeed.

It's Possible To Disagree With Someone About The Ethics Of Non-violence Without Wanting To Kick His Face In.

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.

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.