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" The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers? "

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" Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. "

Peter Morgan

Enough

Guy

I Am

" Truth is an illusory notion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it. "

Peter Morgan

Queen

Writing

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

Peter Morgan

Storytelling

Kind

" As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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?' "

" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "

" 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. "

Peter Morgan

People

History

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

" Most historians are engaged in fiction. "

" It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. "

" 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. "

Peter Morgan

Write

Forgotten

" 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. "

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

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

" There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost. "

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

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

Peter Morgan

Interests

Damage