23 Random Quotes By - Abi Morgan

23 Random Quotes By - Abi Morgane

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.

— Abi Morgan

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.'

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

— Abi Morgan

Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

— Abi Morgan

What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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.

— Abi Morgan

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.

— Abi Morgan

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.

— Abi Morgan

I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept.

— Abi Morgan

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.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

— Abi Morgan

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

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

— Abi Morgan

I was never cool as a kid.

— Abi Morgan

I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.

— Abi Morgan

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