Stephen Potts
Writer
Great Britain, Scotland
About Me:
Website:
www.stephenpotts.net
Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: Writer of published novels, prize-winning stage plays, screenplays, and radio drama
My Work and Credits:
Tommy Trouble (2000)
About:
Illustrated novella for children aged 8-10. Adapted from short film screenplay
Enemy Within (2002)
Hunting Gumnor (1999)
Compass Murphy (2001)
The Ship Thief (2004)
Abigail's Gift (2006)
Grandmother's Footsteps (2006)
Into The Storm (2008)
The Butterfly Tattoo (2007)
On The Water (2010)
LOOTER'S LAMENT (2011)
Fun stuff:
Films I wish I had made:
Baz Luhrman: Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare in Love, Memento, Sexy Beast, Chinatown
I cried watching:
In the Mood for Love, The English Patient
I left the cinema during:
1984
Directors I love:
Robert Altman, Anthony Minghella
Actors I admire:
Ian Bannen, Helen Mirren, Peter Mullen, Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Judy Dench, Nicole Kidman
Writers I Respect:
Anthony Minghella, Aaron Sorkin, Tom Stoppard, Robert Towne, William Goldman, Stephen King,
My desert island discs:
Everything by Spiritualised, Everything by Tindersticks
Books I have given my friends:
House of God, Compass Murphy, The Old Man and The Sea
My death row meal:
I don't think I'd be hungry
The best thing I own:
My dogs (but ownership's not the right word)