Peter Morgan

“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped…

— Peter Morgan

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really…

— Peter Morgan

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about…

— Peter Morgan

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is…

— Peter Morgan

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

— Peter Morgan

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,…

— Peter Morgan

I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.

— Peter Morgan

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the…

— Peter Morgan

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow…

— Peter Morgan

No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

— Peter Morgan

In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part,…

— Peter Morgan

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…

— Peter Morgan

I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have…

— Peter Morgan

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

— Peter Morgan

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make…

— Peter Morgan

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

— Peter Morgan

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant…

— Peter Morgan

“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”

— Peter Morgan

“David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off. John Birt: What? David Frost: He wants…

— Peter Morgan

Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous…

— Peter Morgan

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do…

— Peter Morgan

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

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon…

— Peter Morgan

There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state.

— Peter Morgan

The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

— Peter Morgan