Peter Morgan Quotes

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

  Peter Morgan

  Distance, Events, Stories

  "The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back" by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Oil, Expectations

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• I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

  Peter Morgan

  Exercise, Thinking, Important

  "Screenwriter Peter Morgan Exclusive Interview HEREAFTER; Plus a TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2010.

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• To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

  Peter Morgan

  Novelists, Degrees, Historian

  Source: deadline.com

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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.

  Peter Morgan

  Country, Other Worlds, Leader

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• Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Guy, Littles

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

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Nonfiction, Pleasure

  "The Six Senses of Peter Morgan". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

  Peter Morgan

  Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Peter Morgan

  Writing, Ideas, Who I Am

  "OSCAR Q&A: Peter Morgan Talks 'Hereafter'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. October 21, 2010.

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• The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

  Peter Morgan

  Real, Collaboration, Filmmaker

  Source: deadline.com

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• When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

  Peter Morgan

  Falling In Love, Writing, Thinking About You

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

  Peter Morgan

  Demise, Our Relationship, Mortality

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

  Peter Morgan

  Six Months, Want, Might

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Morgan

  People, Tests, Uniforms

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to direct. 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Ambition, Long, Collaboration

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

  Reading, Guy, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

  Peter Morgan

  Taken, Writing, Knowing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

  Peter Morgan

  Book, Writing, Might

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

  Peter Morgan

  Book, Play, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

  Peter Morgan

  Giving, Work Out, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

  Peter Morgan

  Minutes, Do The Best

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

  Peter Morgan

  Mistake, People, Work Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Drama, Long, Relax

  Source: deadline.com

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• I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

  Peter Morgan

  Watches, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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