Abi Morgan Quotes
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I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.
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I'd love to know what the future looks like.
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Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
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I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.
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Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
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I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.
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I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.
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Writing comedy is a superpower.
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I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.
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Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
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I don't really read that many magazines; I'm more of a browser. I get 'Vanity Fair' quite often if I'm on a train.
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If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.
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'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
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Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.
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'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
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Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.
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When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
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I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
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I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.
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I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
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If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.
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I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews and because it's very accessible. At the weekend, I get the 'Observer' because I love the food supplement, Observer Food Monthly, and the style section. And I can't resist the News of the World.
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I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
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To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.