Quotes from Abi Morgan

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth.

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

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.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

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

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

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

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

My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.

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

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

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

I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take that to America, however, and I have another set of conversations.

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

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'

The world can make you very angry.

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

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.

I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.

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