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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.

From Peter Morgan

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 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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People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

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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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Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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

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I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

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