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Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan
British Writer
Born: Apr 10, 1963
About Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle. Peter Morgan
Family Uncle Complete Embarrassing Without
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. Peter Morgan
Light Shine Heroism Frailty Equal Person Human Want Measure Vindictive
As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected. Peter Morgan
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Other Neglected Synthesis Out More More And More Prophecy Write Make Read Self-Fulfilling Sort Historians Left Histories Get Just Forgotten Then Certain Certain Things Things
You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience. Peter Morgan
You Think Fine Got Person Quite Either Conscience
Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped. Peter Morgan
People Election National Tolerance Relations Everything Stroke Obama Impact About Winning Had Instant Instead Reminded Piece Also Message Self-Esteem Became Were Affect Escaped Uplifting Being Barack Barack Obama Race Race Relations Agony
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. Peter Morgan
Work Reading Pleasure Feel Feels Like Nonfiction Fiction Whereas Movies
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? Peter Morgan
Work Love Me Director Writing First Collaboration Writers Primary Want Process Requirement
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. Peter Morgan
Failure You Risks Sometimes Fall New Things Virtue Possibility Evolve High Constantly High Wire Fact Take Wire Exciting Idea New Because Got Occurs Off Trying Artist Just Want Interesting Act Things
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it. Peter Morgan
Good Head Stuff Around Been Offered Get Fantasy
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. Peter Morgan
People Live Enjoy Society Recognizable Sci-Fi Understand Real Just
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. Peter Morgan
You Writing Cinema Television More Intelligent Than Articulate Far Challenging
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. Peter Morgan
You World Leader Country Become Club Other Minute Small Join Leaders Sort Go Very World Leaders
I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks. Peter Morgan
Drama Because Breaks Stand Ad Watch
It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. Peter Morgan
Think Cold Nixon Come Always Discover Place Interesting Should
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing. Peter Morgan
You Become Think About Write Self-Awareness Self-Conscious Like Because Without Got Doing Very Really Careful
There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost. Peter Morgan
About Something David Frost
I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. Peter Morgan
Writing Drawn Characters Him Am Contradictions Loved Full Internal
I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them. Peter Morgan
Life Great Compassion Great Deal Those Deal Done Public Them Public Life
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage. Peter Morgan
Me Ambition Indicator Because Interests Damage
There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. Peter Morgan
Work Structure Never Many Things Need
I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.' Peter Morgan
Me People Think Voice Stumbled Deal Associate
I've done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I've ever got is from the TV single plays I've written. It's a format where you don't mind saying, 'I want to tackle some important themes head on.' Peter Morgan
Work Saying You Theatre Mind Important Single To Be Honest Pleasure TV Some Tackle Written Head Got Lot Done Where Want Biggest Format Hollywood Themes Ever Honest Plays
In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies. Peter Morgan
Time Failure People Seriously Collective Think Christopher Way Press Ourselves Colleagues Responsible Pretty Similar Something Throw Take Hand Same Same Time Grenades Want Who Professionals Need Treatment
Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious. Peter Morgan
Sometimes Too Head-On Feel Obvious Biography
Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. Peter Morgan
God Together People Sense Somehow No Sense Absolutely Makes Holds Deranged Belief
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell. Peter Morgan
Andrew Only Insolent Knighthood Like After Paul Royal
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