Peter Morgan quotes
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“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,”
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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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : "The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back" by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.
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“I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.”
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“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.”
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“Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”
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“Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.”
-- Peter MorganSource : "The Six Senses of Peter Morgan". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2010.
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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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : "OSCAR Q&A: Peter Morgan Talks 'Hereafter'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. October 21, 2010.
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“I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.”
-- Peter MorganSource : "Screenwriter Peter Morgan Exclusive Interview HEREAFTER; Plus a TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2010.
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“To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“I don't want to direct. 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.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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“People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.”
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: collider.com
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