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Peter Morgan Biography

Peter Julian Robin Morgan, CBE (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. He is the creator of Netflix's drama series The Crown.

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I don't want to direct. 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.

Allow, Ambition, Collaboration, Like, Long, Meet

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

Country, Death, Food, Growing Up, Healthcare, Times

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Degrees, Frankly, Historian, Novelists, Truth

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Become, Facts, Known, Perhaps, Stuff, Who I Am

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone. . . So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious. . . if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

Alone, Closer, Giving, Omen, People, Thinking

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

Everything, Give, Giving, Sometimes, Thought, Work Out

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

Back, Done, Watch, Watches

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.

Become, Country, Leader, Other Worlds, Pantheon, Sort

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it. . . I don't know, 20 times a day.

50S, Giving, Know, Thinking, Thought, Years

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

Distance, Events, Stories, Work

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

Drama, Long, Relax, Switch

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

Actually, Expectations, Like, Oil, Quite, Thinking

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

Faithfully, Mean, Script, Takes, Together, Working Together

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

Love, Moment, Moments, Thing, Writing

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

Control, Good, Slightly, Trying, Writer

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

Exercise, Important, Incredibly, Mapping, Thinking, Wrote

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

Ideas, Like, Who I Am, Wonk, Writing

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Fantastic, Loved, Phone Calls, Phones, Rite, Strictly

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

Enough, Fiction, Guy, Reading, Spend, Time

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Enough, Lucky, Reason, Rhyme, Sometimes

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