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 More Quotes by Peter Morgan More Quotes From Peter Morgan I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. Peter Morgan live woman vienna speak The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers? Peter Morgan me collaboration work love 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 you failure sometimes fall I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it. Peter Morgan head get good fantasy 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. Peter Morgan understand enjoy society people Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. Peter Morgan about become start writing You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. Peter Morgan you cinema writing television If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. Peter Morgan status you perspective fun It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot. Peter Morgan leave alone madness want 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. Peter Morgan parents wife school son