Abi Morgan

I was never cool as a kid.

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Writing comedy is a superpower.

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I'm a cheap date.

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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.

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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

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The world can make you very angry.

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

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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

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I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House.

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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

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

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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…

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I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.

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

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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…

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

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I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.

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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.

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I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way…

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I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I…

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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…

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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…

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The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in…

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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and…

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I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone…

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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…

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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it…

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There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I am always running away from something.

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

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

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I'd love to know what the future looks like.

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Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

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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.

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When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

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