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

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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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" 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?' "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. "

" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "

" I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it. "

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

" Truth is an illusory notion. "

" 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. "

" You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience. "

" People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. "

" You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "