Abi Morgan Quotes
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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 think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
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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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Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
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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 always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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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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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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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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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 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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I was never cool as a kid.
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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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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 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 know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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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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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
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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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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
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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.