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" Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better. "

Peter Morgan

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Write

Things

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" I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. "

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

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Kind

" There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent. "

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

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

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

Peter Morgan

Energy

Beautiful

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught. "

Peter Morgan

Understanding

Story

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

" 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. "

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

" You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Peter Morgan

Interests

Damage

" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "

" 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. "

" 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. "