A biography for Peter Morganhasn’t been written yet.
“Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.”
“You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.”
“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.”
“The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot.”
“As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.”
“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.”
“As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon's presidency never really had a hold over me. For one thing, I never voted for him.”
“Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.”
“The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.”
“Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.”
“I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.”
“I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.”
“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.”
“The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.”
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.”
“I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.”
“It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.”
“There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.”