Christopher Hampton movie quotes

“I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.”
Christopher Hampton

“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”
Christopher Hampton

“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.”
Christopher Hampton

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

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
Christopher Hampton

“I am a man of no convictions - at least I think I am.”
Christopher Hampton