Playwright Quotes

I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.
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.
I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.
I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.
I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
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.
I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.
I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.
I try to stay focused on the work and recognize that I've been very lucky. Maybe it's 'cause I grew up with actors, but I've seen that recognition comes and goes, so all there really is is your family and friends. You have to maintain those constants in your life. Maintain what's beyond your work.
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.
I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.
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.
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
I was never cool as a kid.
I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.
I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.
I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.
I'd love to know what the future looks like.
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