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" 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?' "

Peter Morgan

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" Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall. "

" 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. "

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

" I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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