Peter Morgan Quotes
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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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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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It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
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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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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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I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.
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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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Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful.
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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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I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'
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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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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
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Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.
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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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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 if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
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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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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 start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.
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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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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.
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It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.