Abi Morgan Quotes
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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 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 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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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'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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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 know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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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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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 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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I am always running away from something.
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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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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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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 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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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'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 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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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.