I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn’t go, in a way that I don’t think can be taught. Peter Morgan Read Quote
I’ve done a lot of work in Hollywood and theatre, but to be honest, the biggest pleasure I’ve ever got is from the TV single plays I’ve written. It’s a format where you don’t mind saying, ‘I want to tackle some important themes head on.’ Peter Morgan Read Quote
In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don’t want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that’s pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies. Peter Morgan Read Quote
Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow. Peter Morgan Read Quote
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they’re completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell. Peter Morgan Read Quote
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you’ve got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I’m doing. Peter Morgan Read Quote
It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place. Peter Morgan Read Quote
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. Peter Morgan Read Quote
