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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Peter Morgan

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" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "

" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "

" I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do. "

" 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. "

" I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival. "

" Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful. "

Peter Morgan

Energy

Beautiful

" People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions. "

Peter Morgan

People

History

" I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important. "

" I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. "

" No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle. "

" I'm quick to be upset. My feelings are close to the surface. There is not much gap between a thought and a feeling with me. It makes it difficult for some people. I feel too much. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones. "

" In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.' "

Peter Morgan

Heat

Peaceful

" I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. "

" 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. "

" I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.' "

" Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to. "

Peter Morgan

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Kind

" 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. "

" There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost. "

" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "

Peter Morgan

Interests

Damage

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

" The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do. "

" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "

" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "

" 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. "

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

" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "

" Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better. "