165 Quotes by Peter Morgan

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.

Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.

I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me.

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'