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" 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
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" Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I come from England, and you have a whole range of things offered to you, from television plays and shows and theatre, so much more to explore, so it's never really money. "
Peter Morgan
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Lucky
Enough
" 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. "
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Like
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" Most historians are engaged in fiction. "
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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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Queen
Society
Woman
" 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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Exercise
Think
Important
" I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it. "
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Good
Get
Been
" 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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Family
Hope
Power
" 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. "
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Perspective
Family
Doubt
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
See
Meet
Ambition
" 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
" You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. "
Peter Morgan
Cinema
You
Writing
" Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on. "
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Understand
Sometimes
Okay
" I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.' "
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Voice
Deal
People
" There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state. "
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Head
About
Connected
" I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them. "
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Great
Life
Compassion
" 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
More
Understanding
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
Reason
Shoot
Always
" I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. "
Peter Morgan
Glamorous
Crown
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. "
Peter Morgan
Back
Sleep
Play
" Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts. "
Peter Morgan
Story
You
Heart
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
Him
Generation
Trauma
" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "
Peter Morgan
Analyze
You
Paralyze
" I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. "
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Saying
Writing
Responsibility
" 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. "
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You
New Things
Failure
" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "
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Own
You
Someone
" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "
Peter Morgan
Married
Speak
Vienna
" 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
" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "
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Clock
Will
Work
" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "
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Work
Story
Events
" 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. "
Peter Morgan
Son
Parents
School