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" It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot. "
Peter Morgan
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" 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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" There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state. "
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" Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost. "
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" 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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" I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them. "
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" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "
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" 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
" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "
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" 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. "
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Parents
School
" There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent. "
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Contradiction
Being
" Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful. "
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Me
Energy
Beautiful
" By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha. "
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Job
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Nature
" 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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" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "
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" 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. "
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Live
" 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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More
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Forgotten
" Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. "
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Become
Once
" 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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Get
Been
" You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. "
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Cinema
You
Writing
" Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious. "
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Biography
Obvious
Sometimes
" I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. "
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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
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Woman
" 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. "
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Writing
Responsibility
People
" 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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Saying
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" It's important to me what the viewers think. "
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Think
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Viewers
" 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