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" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "
Interests
Me
Damage
" 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. "
Son
Parents
School
" As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic. "
People
Road
Choices
" 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. "
Him
Generation
Trauma
" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "
Clock
Will
Work
" 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. "
More
Write
Forgotten
" 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. "
After
Insolent
Like
" Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped. "
Impact
Election
Winning
" Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. "
Belief
God
No Sense
" By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha. "
Job
Remarkable
Nature
" Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts. "
Story
You
Heart
" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "
Write
First
Draft
" For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns. "
Man
Generation
World
" For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one truth about what happened in those interviews, so I feel very relaxed about bringing my imagination to the piece. God knows everyone else has. "
Truth
Story
People
" 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?' "
Present
Events
People
" Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. "
Enough
Guy
I Am
" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "
Married
Speak
Vienna
" I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. "
Writing
Loved
Internal
" I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. "
Politics
Writing
I Am
" I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified. "
Writing
People
Love
" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "
Good
Season
Thinking
" 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. "
Drama
Watching
Relax
" 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. "
Understanding
Go
Story
" 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. "
Enough
Person
Think
" I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. "
Glamorous
Crown
Think
" 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. "
Understand
People
Live
" I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones. "
Reviews
Never
Good
" 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. "
Belong
Outsider
Fun
" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "
Work
Story
Events
" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "
Analyze
You
Paralyze
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