Peter Morgan quotes

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. (Peter Morgan)
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. View quote
Peter Morgan
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. View quote
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If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. View quote
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It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot. View quote
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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. View quote
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The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. View quote
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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. View quote
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