Peter Morgan

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

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

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.

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.