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 deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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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 was never cool as a kid.
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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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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 think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.
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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 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 am always running away from something.
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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 love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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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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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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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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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 don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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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 can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.