About Christopher Hampton:
Christopher James Hampton is a Portuguese British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Christopher HamptonI love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
Christopher HamptonI have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher HamptonI find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton