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Christopher Hampton

Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) 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 (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.

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If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

Book, Film, Ifs, Potential, Take

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Day, Give, Giving, Nothing, Read, Shut

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Belief, Man, Men, Problem, Think, Thinking

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.

Couple, Down, Ian, People, Reading, Thinking

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

Ethics, Faces, Possible, Violence, Wanting

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Happiness, Marriage, Morals, Religious, Seduction

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Fail, Having, Husband, Rivals, Thinking

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.

Art, Arts, Devotes, Disappointment, Inadequate, Numbers

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.

Deception, Lying, Novelists, See, Strictest, Thinking

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Bad, Book, Film, Films, Successful, Theory

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.

Important, Scientist, Theory, Unless

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Definitions, Girl, Give, Giving, Say, Turn

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Court, Firsts, Play, Saw, Saws