People bang on all the time about whether what I’ve done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions. Peter Morgan Read Quote
It is devastating, losing a parent. I don’t really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I’d say that an ambitious man is a damaged man. Peter Morgan Read Quote
For ‘Frost/Nixon,’ I had eight people who were present at those interviews – they were all in the room – and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, ‘Were you all really in the same room?’ Peter Morgan Read Quote
I’m constantly having to check my conscience about what I’m writing and the responsibility of what I’m saying. Peter Morgan Read Quote
I wrote a draft of ‘Playboy’ for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do. Peter Morgan Read Quote
I can’t relax when I’m watching a biographical drama because it’s so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction – so that I can switch off. Peter Morgan Read Quote
Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there’s less interference. Because there’s less interference, they tend to be better. Peter Morgan Read Quote
It is a fairly serious thing that you’re doing if you’re writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don’t want to be reminded too much of the responsibility. Peter Morgan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
