Abi Morgan Quotes
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I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
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I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.
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Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
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Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
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As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
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I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
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I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.
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Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.
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Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.
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I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.
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I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
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Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
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The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept.
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I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.
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I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.
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I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.
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There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.
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I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
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I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.
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I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.