Decision Quote by Peter Morgan

When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and…

— Peter Morgan

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays…

— Roger Allam

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts

I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.

— Anjelica Huston

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Well, boys will be bores. Tell me all about yourself, Mary. I’ve had a marvellous time over my novel. A man I know is…

— Angela Thirkell

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had…

— John Crowley

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

— Olivia d'Abo

I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then there was…

— Ali Fazal

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

— Fahadh Faasil

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who,…

— Alan Bennett