I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher HamptonSince 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.
Christopher HamptonA 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 HamptonIt's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Christopher Hampton