William Boyd
Birthday:
7 March 1952, Accra, Ghana
Birth Name:
William Andrew Murray Boyd
William Boyd was born on March 7, 1952 in Accra, Ghana as William Andrew Murray Boyd. He is a writer and producer, known for Chaplin (1992), A Good Man in Africa (1994) and Stars and Bars (1988).
To judge a film by the book it's based on is very harsh. Nobody goes to see Verdi's Falstaff and goes home and reads The Merry Wives of Wind...Show more »
To judge a film by the book it's based on is very harsh. Nobody goes to see Verdi's Falstaff and goes home and reads The Merry Wives of Windsor. Nobody berates Verdi for leaving out so much of the play. And that should apply to film as well. When you adapt a book for film, you lose 60 or 70% of it. Show less «
The cinema is a world of constraints and parameters and barriers, while the world of writing a novel is freedom.
The cinema is a world of constraints and parameters and barriers, while the world of writing a novel is freedom.
[1991] If you don't like collaborating, then don't write screenplays.
[1991] If you don't like collaborating, then don't write screenplays.
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