Peter Morgan famous quotes

03-28-2025

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,
-- Peter Morgan

#Thinking #Oil #Expectations
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
-- Peter Morgan

#Distance #Events #Stories
I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
-- Peter Morgan

#Exercise #Thinking #Important
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.
-- Peter Morgan

#Country #Other Worlds #Leader
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
-- Peter Morgan

#Reading #Guy #Littles
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
-- Peter Morgan

#Reading #Nonfiction #Pleasure
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
-- Peter Morgan

#Writing #Who I Am #Ideas
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
-- Peter Morgan

#Exercise #Thinking #Important
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
-- Peter Morgan

#Novelists #Degrees #Historian
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.
-- Peter Morgan

#Trying
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
-- Peter Morgan

#Real #Collaboration #Filmmaker
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
-- Peter Morgan

#Reading #Guy #Enough
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.
-- Peter Morgan

#Falling In Love #Writing #Thinking About You
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
-- Peter Morgan

#Lucky #Sometimes #Reason
There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.
-- Peter Morgan

#Book #Play #People
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
-- Peter Morgan

#Giving #Work Out #Sometimes
You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.
-- Peter Morgan

#Minutes #Do The Best
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.
-- Peter Morgan

#Who I Am #Stuff #Facts
I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.
-- Peter Morgan

#Watches #Done
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.
-- Peter Morgan

#Writing #Moments
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
-- Peter Morgan

#Moments
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.
-- Peter Morgan

#Mean #Working Together #Together
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.
-- Peter Morgan

#Phones #Phone Calls #Fantastic
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
-- Peter Morgan

#Ambition #Long #Collaboration
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
-- Peter Morgan

#People #Tests #Uniforms

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