165 Quotes by Peter Morgan

I’m always pre-occupied with what it is that I’m doing at the moment.

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

It’s really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it’s bad you just never show it to anyone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you’re doing it.