Peter Morgan Quotes
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I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.
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As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon's presidency never really had a hold over me. For one thing, I never voted for him.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'
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In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part, they seem very remote.
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I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.
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Truth is an illusory notion.
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There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'
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Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful.
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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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If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.
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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 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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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.
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Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.
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The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
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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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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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Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
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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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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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As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.