Quotes from Abi Morgan

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.

I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.

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.'

I am always running away from something.

I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

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

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.

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

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

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'm a cheap date.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.