Peter Morgan Quotes
Top 28 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off.
John Birt: What?
David Frost: He wants the wilderness.
John Birt: What?
David Frost: He wants the wilderness.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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.
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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.
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.