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" 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. "

Peter Morgan

Reality

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic. "

" 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. "

" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "

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" 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 test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. "

" I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me. "

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

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Heat

Peaceful

" 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. "

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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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