23 A1 Quotes From Abi Morgan

23 A1 Quotes From Abi Morgane

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews and because it's very accessible. At the weekend, I get the 'Observer' because I love the food supplement, Observer Food Monthly, and the style section. And I can't resist the News of the World.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

I'm a cheap date.

— Abi Morgan

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

— Abi Morgan

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.

— Abi Morgan

I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.

— Abi Morgan

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

— Abi Morgan

I got dumped off 'The Iron Lady' a month before they started shooting, and then they brought two new writers on. Then I was brought back on again. I'm just a bit of a rubber ball. I just bounce back.

— Abi Morgan

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.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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.

— Abi Morgan

Writing comedy is a superpower.

— Abi Morgan

The world can make you very angry.

— Abi Morgan

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?

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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.

— Abi Morgan

I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.

— Abi Morgan

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