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" 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. "

Peter Morgan

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Road

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" There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. "

" Some of the things I have written about are a way of connecting with my father - I know he knew who Idi Amin was, and I know he knew who Longford was. And I know he knew who Nixon was, because shortly before he died, I talked to him about Watergate. "

" Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. "

" There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent. "

" 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. "

" It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man. "

" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "

" I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified. "

" 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. "

" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "

" 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. "

" The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot. "

" 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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" I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. "

" The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness. "

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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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