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" I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.' "
Peter Morgan
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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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" 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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" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "
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" No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle. "
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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? "
Peter Morgan
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Love
" 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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" If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. "
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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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Hope
Power
" 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
Like
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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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People
History
" 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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Were
Downfall
" People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. "
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Life
Test
People
" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "
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Me
Damage
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
Back
Sleep
Play
" Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. "
Peter Morgan
Writing
Become
Once
" It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. "
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Interesting
Cold
Think
" 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
Parent
Losing
" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "
Peter Morgan
Work
Story
Events
" I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost. "
Peter Morgan
Lost
Writing
Thinking
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
Truth
Story
People
" In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.' "
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Heat
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" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "
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Good
Season
Thinking
" There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent. "
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Contradiction
Being
" 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
Queen
" The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. "
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Experience
Professional
Real
" Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. "
Peter Morgan
Belief
God
No Sense
" 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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Impossible
End
Independent
" I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. "
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Writing
Loved
Internal
" 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
Reading
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
After
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