Zitat des Tages von Simon Beaufoy:
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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.
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
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.
