Latest Peter Morgan Quotes from Interviews

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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 Morgan

  Falling In Love, Writing, Thinking About You

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Guy, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Book, Writing, Might

  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.

  Peter Morgan

  Taken, Writing, Knowing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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 Morgan

  Giving, Work Out, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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 Morgan

  Book, Play, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Mistake, People, Work Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

  Peter Morgan

  Minutes, Do The Best

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

  Peter Morgan

  Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

  Peter Morgan

  Watches, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

  Peter Morgan

  Moments

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

  Peter Morgan

  Writing, Moments

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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 Morgan

  Mean, Working Together, Together

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Peter Morgan

  Country, Growing Up, Healthcare

  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.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

  Peter Morgan

  Crazy, Age, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

  Peter Morgan

  Demise, Our Relationship, Mortality

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Peter Morgan

  People, Tests, Uniforms

  Source: collider.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.

  Peter Morgan

  Six Months, Want, Might

  Source: collider.com

• The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

  Peter Morgan

  Real, Collaboration, Filmmaker

  Source: deadline.com

• 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 Morgan

  Ambition, Long, Collaboration

  Source: deadline.com

• 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 Morgan

  Phones, Phone Calls, Fantastic

  Source: deadline.com

• Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

  Peter Morgan

  Lucky, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: deadline.com

• 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 Morgan

  Who I Am, Stuff, Facts

  Source: deadline.com