Quotes by Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan

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.

Giving

Thinking

Years

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

Demise

Mortality

Our Relationship

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

Expectations

Oil

Thinking

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Guy

Littles

Reading

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.

Fantastic

Phone Calls

Phones

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

Ideas

Who I Am

Writing

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.

Drama

Long

Relax

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.

Ambition

Collaboration

Long

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn’t work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

Giving

Sometimes

Work Out

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.

Age

Crazy

Looks

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Age

Ambition

Book

Collaboration

Country

Crazy

Degrees

Demise

Distance

Do The Best

Done

Drama

Enough

Events

Exercise

Expectations

Facts

Falling In Love

Fantastic

Filmmaker

Giving

Growing Up

Guy

Healthcare

Historian

Ideas

Important

Knowing

Leader

Littles

Long

Looks

Lucky

Mean

Might

Minutes

Mistake

Moments

Mortality

Nonfiction

Novelists

Oil

Other Worlds

Our Relationship

People

Phone Calls

Phones

Play

Pleasure

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Quotes by Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan

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.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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.

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

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.

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.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn’t work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

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