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
good offered
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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.
either
You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
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?
distance analogies narrative
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
taken writing knowing
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.
reading guy littles
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
reading fiction pleasure
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
writing who-i-am ideas
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
moments
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
writing moments
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.
watches done
I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.