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
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.
mean together working-together
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.
reading fiction pleasure
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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.
country other-worlds leader
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.
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.
exercise thinking important
I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
thinking oil expectations
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,
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.
across ad compliance department software solutions solve truth
The truth is that it's all necessary. These solutions have to be implemented across the whole company, and having some ad hoc software in one department without having it in every one isn't going to solve your compliance issues.
albeit consumer improving positive trend
The improving trend is positive for consumer spending, albeit modestly.
came initial popular pressure stocks traded
I think that the initial down pressure came from that it was one of the most popular stocks being traded by individuals.
overall recovery trend turnaround
The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.
ball bigger business close gets global ours roll string
If you have a global organization, you could have 80 different business units, and every one of those has processes, risks, controls, and tests. It gets to be a bigger and bigger ball of string every period. But with ours you can close out, and only roll over changes.