Colin Wilson

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 54

   CreditLifeforcescreenwriter

3. 1998 age 67

   CreditSmall Soldiersproducer

4. 2004 age 73

   CreditTroyproducer

5. 2013 age 82

   Died

• JSJacob Smith2 titles
• DBDavid Benioff1 title
• SBSean Bean1 title
• JCJames Cosmo1 title
• JGJulian Glover1 title
• JHJames Horner1 title
• TETed Elliott1 title
• TRTerry Rossio1 title
• BPBrad Pitt1 title
• JSJohn Shrapnel1 title

• Influenced by

  • JSJean-Paul Sartre

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Tom Ordelman Thor NLCC BY-SA 3.0

• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol — brighter than my students at university.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• No art can be judged by purely aesthetic standards, although a painting or a piece of music may appear to give a purely aesthetic pleasure. Aesthetic enjoyment is an intensification of the vital response, and this response forms the basis of all value judgements. The existentialist contends that all values are connected with the problems of human existence, the stature of man, the purpose of life. These values are inherent in all works of art, in addition to their aesthetic values, and are closely connected with them.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, yet they keep up a pretense, to themselves, to others; their respectability, their philosophy, their religion, are all attempts to gloss over, to make civilized and rational something that is savage, unorganized, irrational. He is an Outsider because he stands for truth.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There certainly is self division. The man who watches a woman undressing has the red eyes of an ape; yet the man who sees two young lovers, really alone for the first time, who brings out all the pathos, the tenderness and uncertainty when he tells about it, is no brute; he is very much human. And the ape and the man exist in one body; and when the ape's desires are about to be fulfilled, he disappears and is succeeded by the man, who is disgusted with the ape's appetite.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.

  Colin Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0