Simon Beaufoy Quotes
One doesn’t question a miracle.
Beaufoy, Simon. Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script. Newmarket Press, 2008, p. 115.
6 so-called “heretics” were burned alive at the stake. The phrase was used thereafter for the tens of thousands of horrible tortures and murders.
Simon Beaufoy is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth. In 1997, he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The Full Monty. He went on to win the 2009 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire as well as winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award.