Top 20 Quotes by Peter Morgan

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

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.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.