Quotes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'

I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.

I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.

The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.

I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.

I'm a massive control freak.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.

Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.

I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.

The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.

You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'