Christopher Hampton Quotes

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English    playwright    and    screenwriter.    He    established    his reputation  with   such  plays   as  The  Philanthropist   (1970).   He adapted  Les  Liaisons  Dangereuses  (1986)  from  the  novel  by Laclos   and  Graham  Greene's  The  Quiet  American  (2002)  for screen.

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

1974  Savages, sc.16.

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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton
— Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton
— Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)

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Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?

Christopher Hampton
— Horváth in Tales from Hollywood (1983), scene 8

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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Christopher Hampton
— 1970  The Philanthropist.

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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton
— 1970  The Philanthropist.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

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