Peter Morgan Quotes

In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision.

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Every actor wants to direct.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

The vision people have of a director is completely flawed - someone with a crystalline vision of everything they're going to do. How boring would that be? It's a creative and collaborative process.

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

I don't know what my ambitions are until they turn up really but I'd love to work with Shane Meadows, I know that much!