Richard Curtis
Birthday: 8 November 1956, Wellington, New Zealand
Birth Name: Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis
Height: 180 cm
Richard Curtis was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, New Zealand as Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis. He is a writer and producer, known for Love Actually (2003), Bean (1997) and About Time (2013) ...Show More
I am very interested in time travel for some reason or other. I am writing a film about it but on a Show more
I am very interested in time travel for some reason or other. I am writing a film about it but on a low budget with no spectacular special effects. Maybe it's a desire to get out of being old. Sometimes you do just love the idea that you could go back in time and change things. Hide
I think it's a responsibility of people who have had very lucky lives indeed to try to spread some o Show more
I think it's a responsibility of people who have had very lucky lives indeed to try to spread some of that around. Hide
[on Philip Seymour Hoffman] I don't think there is any doubt or argument that he was the greatest ch Show more
[on Philip Seymour Hoffman] I don't think there is any doubt or argument that he was the greatest character actor of our time. Hide
You won't find many people who've had an easier ride in movies than I.
You won't find many people who've had an easier ride in movies than I.
I might have one more sit-com in me before I die.
I might have one more sit-com in me before I die.
The worst moment of my life was when I watched Notting Hill and thought: 'Oh, God, it's exactly the Show more
The worst moment of my life was when I watched Notting Hill and thought: 'Oh, God, it's exactly the same as Four Weddings and a Funeral.' I'd been working on it for four years and it never occurred to me... Hide
These days the things you can watch together as a family are much fewer so when you get something li Show more
These days the things you can watch together as a family are much fewer so when you get something like Doctor Who (2005) or The X Factor (2004) it is such a pleasure to sit down as a family. Hide
I think I had a very lucky break when we asked Mike Newell to do Four Weddings. Mike is a very serio Show more
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 sketches. Hide
If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting Show more
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 in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you're accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental. Hide
Never, ever in any of our films have we thought 'we'll do this for the American market', Sometimes w Show more
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. Hide
I didn't decide to be a writer. I wanted to be an actor and I turned out to be very bland, so I woul Show more
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 to write my own lines. Hide
I like to work with people who are fond of me, who really know me.
I like to work with people who are fond of me, who really know me.
Anything that is wrong with a film will come back to haunt you forever, so I take a long time writin Show more
Anything that is wrong with a film will come back to haunt you forever, so I take a long time writing, fix everything, underline bits that I thought were funny when I first thought of them because they won't be funny when I look at them later. Oh, and I put the word 'fuck' in a lot. Hide
[on writing the script for War Horse (2011)] I remember Steven [Spielberg] phoning me up one day and Show more
[on writing the script for War Horse (2011)] I remember Steven [Spielberg] phoning me up one day and saying 'Which bit are you working on?' and I said, 'I am the horse'. He said, ''What do you mean?' and I said, 'Well, unless we are clear what the horse is thinking all the time, it is going to be tougher for you'. I remember thinking very hard about what the horses would feel when they were first taken away by German soldiers and first saw dead horses by the roadside, and how frightening that would be. Hide
My films are not really written in a formulaic way, even though some people might think they are. Th Show more
My films are not really written in a formulaic way, even though some people might think they are. They take a long time to develop. Hide
I was really interested in the fact that Van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh) was one of the few great artist Show more
I was really interested in the fact that Van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh) was one of the few great artists in history who got no praise at all in his lifetime and I thought maybe if we apply time travel to that we can put that right. (On Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor (2010)) Hide
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