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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 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. "

" I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them. "

" By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha. "

" I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct. "

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

Peter Morgan

Energy

Beautiful

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Peter Morgan

Understanding

Story

" 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

" 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. "

Peter Morgan

Lights

Reading

" 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. "

" Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. "

" I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. "

" 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. "

Peter Morgan

Self-Awareness

Think

" There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film. "

" I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do. "

" It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. "

" It's important to me what the viewers think. "

" Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. "

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

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

" Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking. "

Peter Morgan

Smile

Understanding

" 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. "