Peter Morgan Quotes

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Peter Morgan

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 10, 1963

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Peter Morgan

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

Peter Morgan

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

Peter Morgan

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Peter Morgan

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Peter Morgan

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

Peter Morgan

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

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The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

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I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks.

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It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

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I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

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If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

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I'm quick to be upset. My feelings are close to the surface. There is not much gap between a thought and a feeling with me. It makes it difficult for some people. I feel too much.

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There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.

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The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

Peter Morgan

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I come from England, and you have a whole range of things offered to you, from television plays and shows and theatre, so much more to explore, so it's never really money.

Peter Morgan

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

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I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

Peter Morgan

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

Peter Morgan