Peter Morgan Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.”

“Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.”

“Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”

“I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.”

“I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.”

“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.”

“I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.”