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

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Most historians are engaged in fiction. "

" I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism. "

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

" In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "