I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. — 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
I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going… — 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
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never… — 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
The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have… — 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
