Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
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I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
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I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
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I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.
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I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
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I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
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If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.
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I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.
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To me, most comedy is dark comedy.
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You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'
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The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
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The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
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I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
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I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
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You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
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I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.
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I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.
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So much TV is drawn out.
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I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
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I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
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Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.
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Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'