Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan
Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBEis a British film writer and playwright. Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Damned United and Rush...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 April 1963
incredibly mapping quickly
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
audience entire experience inch life movies people test uniform within
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
articulate
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
people society
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.
director love primary work
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?
trying
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.
mistake work-out people
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.
demise mortality our-relationship
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
phones phone-calls fantastic
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.
might way months
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.
novelists degrees historian
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
who-i-am stuff facts
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.
drama long relax
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.
recession
we don't have a recession with these figures.