Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan
Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBEis a British film writer and playwright. Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Damned United and Rush...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 April 1963
who-i-am stuff facts
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 entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.
phones phone-calls fantastic
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.
lucky sometimes reason
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
novelists degrees historian
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
might way months
There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.
people tests uniforms
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
ambition long want
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
real collaboration filmmaker
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
demise mortality our-relationship
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
thinking years giving
A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.
crazy age looks
I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.
country growing-up healthcare
If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.
thinking giving people
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.
book writing stories
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.