6 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan is best known for his seminal work on the British royal family: The Queen, a well-received biography of Her Majesty that was released in 2004. He has written extensively for the theater and screen, including the highly acclaimed film Fair Game (1997) and the award-winning The Deal (2002). He is currently serving as a co-writer and executive producer on HBO's The Undoing, an adaptation of Michael Lewis' acclaimed nonfiction book, Moneyball.

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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. Peter Morgan
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Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target. Peter Morgan
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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. Peter Morgan
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Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage. Peter Morgan
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. Peter Morgan