British - Writer | April 10, 1963 -
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Peter Morgan
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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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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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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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.
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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.
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As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.
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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.
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