Richard Curtis Quotes
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I like to work with people who are fond of me, who really know me.
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If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it`s called searingly realistic, even though it`s never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling...
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I didn`t decide to be a writer. I wanted to be an actor and I turned out to be very bland, so I would always get cast as a character from Twelefth Night called Fabian, who hides behind the hedge and doesn`t have any funny lines. So I decided I would have ...
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Never, ever in any of our films have we thought `we`ll do this for the American market`, Sometimes we`d change a song or a name or the word `arse` but on the whole we try to make movies for home and then just hope they`ll work in the US.
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I think I had a very lucky break when we asked Mike Newell to do Four Weddings. Mike is a very serious, beautiful person, a wonderful director. What he succeeded in doing was to hide the fact that the original script read much more like a series of sketch...
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| Name | Richard Curtis |
| Height | 5' 11" (180 cm) |
| Occupation | Writer |
