“For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even ...” — Peter Morgan Quote

For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one truth about what happened in those interviews, so I feel very relaxed about bringing my imagination to the piece. God knows everyone else has.

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.

I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.