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I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

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After a while, you become really irritated that you're not recognised as the person who wrote 'The Full Monty.' Everyone goes on about how lovely the characters are. That's because they were written! 'What a clever title.' Yeah, that's because I made up the title!

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I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are completely different beasts.

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I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, 'I don't care if it can't happen. I don't care if you say it's impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.' I think it's an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible.

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Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

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The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

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When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

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It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.

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In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

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The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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