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" I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important. "

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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. "

" I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most historians are engaged in fiction. "

" The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness. "

" I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks. "

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

" The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. "

" 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. "

" There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state. "

" 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. "

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

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