165 Quotes by Peter Morgan

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.

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

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.

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

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,

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

You’re working with other people and sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn’t realise what a mistake you’ve made until you see it projected.

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.

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