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" I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones. "
Peter Morgan
Reviews
Never
Good
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" You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. "
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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. "
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" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness. "
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" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "
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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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Know
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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's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right. "
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" The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. "
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Professional
Real
" 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. "
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Writing
View
" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "
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Someone
" I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks. "
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Because
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" 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. "
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Most
Write
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" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "
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Married
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Vienna
" 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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More
Write
Forgotten
" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "
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Write
First
Draft
" 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. "
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People
Me
History
" There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. "
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Work
Structure
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Think
Saying
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" When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it. "
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" 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. "
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" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "
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" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "
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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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Reason
Shoot
Always