Peter Morgan

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

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.'

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

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.

Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.

I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.