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Abi Morgan

(1968) Screenwriter

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Abi Morgan is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About Abi Morgan

Born: January 1, 1968
Profession: Screenwriter

About Abi Morgan

[Wikidata] Welsh playwright and screenwriter... | [Wikipedia] Abigail Louise Morgan is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

Writing comedy is a superpower.

Comedy

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I'm a cheap date.

Cheap

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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

Feminism

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Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

Coward

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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.

Back

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The world can make you very angry.

Anger

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Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

Absolutely

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Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving…

Anger

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I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic…

Confidence

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I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

Architecture

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I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first…

Always

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If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

Mirror

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I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.

Boring

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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

Experience

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Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

Feel

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I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing…

Clothes

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I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've…

Find

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I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of…

Casting

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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…

Great

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I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take…

America

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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…

Feminism

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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.…

Change

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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…

Architecture

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I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a…

Cinema

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I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews…

Every day

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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…

Actor

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I try to stay focused on the work and recognize that I've been very lucky. Maybe it's 'cause I grew up with…

Family

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As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the…

Best

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Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true…

Actor

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I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.

Character

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Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

Children

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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…

Art

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The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.

Hard

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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.

Every morning

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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

Book

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I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

Perspective

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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…

Bar

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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not…

Failure

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Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that…

Chaos

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I find it fascinating to see other people's photos on social media but I don't upload pictures myself. I don't even know…

Digital

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Abi Morgan by topic

Writing (27) Time (13) Theatre (11) Work (10) Love (10) World (9) Women (9) Something (9) Good (9) Life (8) I think (8) Children (7) Always (7) Feminism (6) Play (5)