165 Quotes by Peter Morgan

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film.

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.

I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.

I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.