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 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 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 love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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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 always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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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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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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I am always running away from something.
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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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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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I was never cool as a kid.
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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'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
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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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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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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 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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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.