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Christopher Hampton

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1996-01-07
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1996-01-07
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  1. “Get it off the ground Well, I don't know I don't really want to spend the rest of my life going through with my back numbers, but there are one or two that I would quite like to resurrect. The good thing about scripts is that they continue to exist, and if anyone wants to do them at one time or another, then there they are.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I wrote it in nineteen seventy seven, yes, I had a very good year writing it. I took a whole year off, and wrote the script, and was very proud of it, and then it took me seventeen years too.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “As much as that, I think I've written maybe thirty screenplays of which ten have been filmed, so looked at from one side, that's a very good average, one in three. On the other hand, there are these twenty scripts.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Oh, yes, we used to. We used to sit and there we were in our early 20s at the Royal Court and say, we've got 10 years. We used to look at other people's careers. The theatre burns you up, we used to say. We've got 10 years, and how are we going to get through the rest of our lives? And it's true to say that having had my first play on when I was twenty, at the age of thirty I had a play called Treats, which was very poorly received by the critics, and at that moment I thought when I've had my ten years and I'd better diversify.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Not really because in my 20s when I was having a more ordered existence and living in London and working at the Royal Court and turning in a play every couple of years, my agent, Margaret Ramsay, who was a legendary figure and very important person in my life, used to ring me up once a week and say You must do more, you must do more, you can't just rest on your laurels, you can't just turn in these plays every couple of years. You must think what else you want to do. And slowly this water torture got through to me.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “No, I don't think so. I have been known to say no from time to time, but I do probably err on the side of doing too much.”

    1996-01-07 · Desert Island Discs · Christopher Hampton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source