Christopher Hampton Quotes

British playwright, screenwriter and translator (born 1946)

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Christopher Hampton, CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his play, Les liaisons dangereuses, and his screenplay, Dangerous Liaisons, both based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

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Birth Name: Christopher James Hampton

Alternative Names: Sir Christopher James Hampton

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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

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.

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?

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