We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

Peter Morgan

Categorized in : Thinking People Giving

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

Peter Morgan

distance events stories

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.

Peter Morgan

oil expectations thinking

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

Peter Morgan

important exercise thinking

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

Peter Morgan

historian degrees novelists

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.

Peter Morgan

other-worlds leader country

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

Peter Morgan

guy reading littles

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

Peter Morgan

nonfiction pleasure reading

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Peter Morgan

guy reading enough

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

Peter Morgan

who-i-am writing ideas

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

Peter Morgan

thinking-about-you falling-in-love writing

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.

Peter Morgan

phone-calls fantastic phones

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Peter Morgan

moments

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.

Peter Morgan

working-together together mean

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.

Peter Morgan

who-i-am stuff facts

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.

Peter Morgan

healthcare growing-up country

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.

Peter Morgan

crazy age looks

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.

Peter Morgan

giving years thinking

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

Peter Morgan

mortality our-relationship demise

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

Peter Morgan

lucky reason sometimes

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

Peter Morgan

filmmaker collaboration real