Peter Morgan Quotations

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?

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.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

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

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

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

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

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.