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
book play people
There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.
giving work-out sometimes
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
minutes do-the-best
You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.
mistake work-out people
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.
trying
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.
watches done
I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.
writing moments
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.
moments
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
writing who-i-am ideas
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
mean together working-together
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.
reading fiction pleasure
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
reading guy littles
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
country other-worlds leader
The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
taken writing knowing
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.