A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

2012 - Ali and Nino (screenwriter) adapted from Kurban Said's novel Ali and Nino. Early life
Hampton was born in Faial Azores to British parents Dorothy Patience (née Herrington) and Bernard Patrick Hampton a marine telecommunications engineer for Cable & Wireless. Fellow dramatist David Hare was a school contemporary; poet Harry Guest was a teacher.

Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright screen writer and film director.