Peter Morgan Quotes

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Peter Morgan

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 10, 1963

Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.

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I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

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I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.

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I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

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I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do.

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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

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In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

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The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

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It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

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I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.

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Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

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For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns.

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People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

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You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

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Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

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The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

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I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

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I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

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