Abi Morgan Quotes
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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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I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
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Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'
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I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
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Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
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I am always running away from something.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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I was never cool as a kid.
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I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
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I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.
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When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.
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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
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I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.
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I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.