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I'm quite interested in doing a film about fashion. As someone with no fashion taste whatsoever, I think it would be good for me.
I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.
If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.
If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.
It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.
Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.
Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
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.
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
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.'
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
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.
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.
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.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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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