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" I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. "
Peter Morgan
Politics
Writing
I Am
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" Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. "
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" I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright. "
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" I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society. "
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" I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. "
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" 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.' "
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" In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "
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" My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay. "
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Lights
Like
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" The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them. "
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" If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing. "
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" Truth is an illusory notion. "
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" Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. "
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" The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers? "
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" I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. "
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" It's important to me what the viewers think. "
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" There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state. "
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" 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. "
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" Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to. "
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" 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. "
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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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