British - Writer | April 10, 1963 -
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
Peter Morgan
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I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.
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There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.
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I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'
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The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.
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I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.'
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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.
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There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.
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There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film.
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Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
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Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.
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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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