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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.

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

    Book   Play   People  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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

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

  • You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

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

    "OSCAR Q&A: Peter Morgan Talks 'Hereafter'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. October 21, 2010.
  • I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

    Reading   Guy   Enough  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

    Trying  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

    People   Tests   Uniforms  
    Source: collider.com
  • To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

    Source: deadline.com
  • If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    Taken   Writing   Knowing  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Might  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

    Who I Am   Stuff   Facts  
    Source: deadline.com
  • We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    Thinking   Years   Giving  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

    Source: deadline.com
  • 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.

    Six Months   Want   Might  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

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

    "Screenwriter Peter Morgan Exclusive Interview HEREAFTER; Plus a TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2010.
  • I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

    Watches   Done  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    Drama   Long   Relax  
    Source: deadline.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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