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

- Peter Morgan

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

- Peter Morgan

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

- Peter Morgan

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

- Peter Morgan

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

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

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

- Peter Morgan

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

- Peter Morgan

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