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
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I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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Japan probably is the biggest victim of deflation in Asia,
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Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms,
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I would suspect the rise in January was a kind of bounce after four straight months of decline,
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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?
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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.
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You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
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As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.
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Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.