Peter Morgan Quotes
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.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.
If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.
