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" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "

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

" In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part, they seem very remote. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?' "

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

" 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. "

" I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man. "

" I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.' "

" I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Truth is an illusory notion. "