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" I'm quick to be upset. My feelings are close to the surface. There is not much gap between a thought and a feeling with me. It makes it difficult for some people. I feel too much. "

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" It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility. "

Peter Morgan

Writing

Responsibility

People

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Peter Morgan

Storytelling

Kind

" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "

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

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

" 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

" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "

Peter Morgan

Interests

Damage

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

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

" I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified. "

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

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

" I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing. "

" There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting. "

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

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

" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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