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Top 25 Peter Morgan Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Morgan Quote: “You’re working with other people and sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn’t realise what a mistake you’ve made until you see it projected.”

1. “You’re working with other people and sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn’t realise what a mistake you’ve made until you see it projected.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn’t work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.”

2. “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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Peter Morgan Quote: “Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.”

3. “Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “If you’re growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there’s plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.”

4. “If you’re growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there’s plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.”

5. “James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I’m always pre-occupied with what it is that I’m doing at the moment.”

6. “I’m always pre-occupied with what it is that I’m doing at the moment.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.”

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

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I never go back over something I’ve done and I never watch them again.”

8. “I never go back over something I’ve done and I never watch them again.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “It’s really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it’s bad you just never show it to anyone.”

9. “It’s really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it’s bad you just never show it to anyone.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.”

10. “The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.”

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

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you’re slightly out of control.”

12. “I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you’re slightly out of control.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “There’s no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.”

13. “There’s no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?”

14. “To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?”

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Peter Morgan 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.”

15. “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.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that’s based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn’t entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.”

16. “The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that’s based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn’t entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “The thing that I’m most in love with is the thing that I’m writing at the moment.”

17. “The thing that I’m most in love with is the thing that I’m writing at the moment.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.”

18. “If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “You don’t really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it – and he shoots it very faithfully.”

19. “You don’t really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it – and he shoots it very faithfully.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.”

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

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Peter Morgan Quote: “Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”

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

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Peter Morgan Quote: “People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.”

22. “People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Peter Morgan 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.”

24. “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.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Peter Morgan Quote: “I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.”

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

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Peter Morgan Quote: “You can only do the best you can in the minute that you’re doing it.”

27. “You can only do the best you can in the minute that you’re doing it.”

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