105 Quotes by Abi Morgan

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.

Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

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

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

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 say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

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

Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.