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Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.
The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept.
The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.
The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
The world can make you very angry.
There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.'
There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.
To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.
What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.
When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
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.
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
Writing comedy is a superpower.
Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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