Peter Morgan Quotes

Peter Morgan — British Writer born on April 10, 1963,

Peter Morgan is 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... (wikipedia)

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.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

Peter Morgan Quotes

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