British - Writer | April 10, 1963 -
No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.
Peter Morgan
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If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.
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There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.
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Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
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I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
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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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I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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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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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
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You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
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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.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
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