Peter Morgan Quotes

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Peter Morgan

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 10, 1963

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

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There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.

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I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

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The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.

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I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.'

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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

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There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

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There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film.

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Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

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Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

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Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.

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I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.

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I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

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If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.

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I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

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I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.

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By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

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When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.

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Truth is an illusory notion.

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