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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.
- Ever-Changing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a while, you become really irritated that you're not recognised as the person who wrote 'The Full Monty.' Everyone goes on about how lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because I made up the title!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are completely different beasts.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020