Author: Peter Morgan

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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?

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?

- Peter Morgan

No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

- Peter Morgan

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.

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.

- Peter Morgan

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

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

- Peter Morgan

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

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

- Peter Morgan

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

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

- Peter Morgan

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

- Peter Morgan

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.

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.

- Peter Morgan

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

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

- Peter Morgan

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