Peter Morgan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.”

“People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.”

“You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.”

“Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.”

“You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”