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.
From Peter Morgan
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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.
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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.
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.
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.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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.
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