Abi Morgan Quotes

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.
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.
Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true to work with him.
Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.
Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
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.
I am always running away from something.
I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take that to America, however, and I have another set of conversations.
I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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