Peter Morgan Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Peter Morgan:
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 can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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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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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.
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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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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'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.
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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 actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
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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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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.
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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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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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People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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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 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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