Ian McEwan

McEwan, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Unbelievers

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bringing the Past to Life: The Making of 'Atonement'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Atonement

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Atonement

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Butterflies

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Rise of the Celebrity Class

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Enduring Love

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Enduring Love

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Foglie di cemento

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Solid Geometry

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen First Love, Last Rites

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Good Son

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Innocent

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Rozmowa z czlowiekiem z szafy

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Cement Garden

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Innocent

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Comfort of Strangers

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Schmetterlinge

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Soursweet

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Last Day of Summer

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Last Day of Summer

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Ploughman's Lunch

  1983, role: writer

McEwan, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Mark Knopfler: A Life in Songs

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew

McEwan, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Skyfall

  2012, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Ian Mcewan:

"By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality."

"It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important."

"You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan."

"It is an excellent offer."

"It's just a little dusty valley. There is nothing there. We're going to have to develop the entire site."

"This was a tough decision, but it was driven by our need for higher temperatures. This is not a cost-cutting measure."

"One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."

"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."

"I now bear a kind of stigmata. I am in the computer as having been denied entry to the United States and that is really bad news. They can put things into that computer, but they never take them out."

"By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage."

"In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot."

"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."

"I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress."

"Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves."

"What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely."

"I often don't read reviews."

"You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters."

"My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me."

"It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in."

"I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists."