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" Truth is an illusory notion. "
Peter Morgan
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Notion
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" People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. "
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" 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. "
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World
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones. "
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" 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?' "
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" I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!' "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Country
Leader
" It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. "
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" 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. "
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" If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you. "
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" Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. "
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" Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. "
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" Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell. "
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" I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting. "
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" 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. "
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