Peter Morgan (born 10 April 1963) 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. Read full biography of 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.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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... →
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and... →
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
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... →
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
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'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
Peter Morgan (born 10 April 1963) 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.