I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part, they seem… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
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. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
