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Abi Morgan
Welsh
Playwright
Born:
1968
Love
Me
Think
Women
Work
You
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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
Good
You
Creative
Hate
Ego
Fall
Critics
Something
Wrong
Because
Got
Bum
Gets
Quite
Flat
While
Your
Thing
Level
I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.
Abi Morgan
Hope
God
Me
Believe
Linked
Child
Used
The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
Abi Morgan
Love
Myself
London
About
Including
Filled
Thing
I'd love to know what the future looks like.
Abi Morgan
Love
Future
Like
Know
Looks
When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
Abi Morgan
Me
You
People
Money
Hopeless
Say
Prolific
People Say
Like
Just
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
Abi Morgan
Work
Good
Me
Failure
Better
Single
Not Good Enough
Every
Enough
Write
Look
Single Thing
Go
Up
Process
Keeps
Thing
Night
Every Single Thing
I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
Abi Morgan
Interior
World
Sit
Cornwall
Paper
Kid
Had
Dolls
Huge
Wet
Endless
Holidays
Playing
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
You
Somewhere
Distance
Say
Running
Something
Point
Through
Until
End
Fix
Get
Stop
Middle
Cannot
Page
Engine
Theory
Marathon
Start
Last
Plays
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?
Abi Morgan
Freedom
Women
Writing
Pain
Would
Some
Call
Denied
Very
Privilege
Little
Act
Painful
Basic
Plays
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
Abi Morgan
Me
First
Think
Press
Writer
Greatest
Always
Still
Send
Script
Moment
Button
Draft
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
You
Women
World
Country
Pay
Every
Other
See
Part
Globally
Feminist
Huge
Happening
Hollywood
Disparity
Profession
Socially
Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
Abi Morgan
Say
Would
Absolutely
Writer
Feminist
Now
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
Me
Women
Inspire
Say
Something
Having
Writers
Concept
Terms
Understand
Built
Get
Your
Notion
Who
Originally
Actor
Muse
Muses
'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
Abi Morgan
Strongly
Tender
Most
Autobiographical
Play
The world can make you very angry.
Abi Morgan
Angry
You
World
Make
Very
I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
Abi Morgan
Family
Me
Partner
Way
Bit
Kids
Nerd
Felt
Always
Am
Oddity
Than
Gets
Room
Them
Cooler
My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
Abi Morgan
Love
Me
Fight
Love Is
Right Things
Inspired
Greatest
Up
Children
Stand
Stand Up
Right
Things
I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
Abi Morgan
Character
Think
Between
Supporting
Policies
Difference
Connecting
Believing
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
Good
Fashion
Me
Think
Would
Would-Be
About
Someone
Doing
Taste
Whatsoever
Quite
Interested
Film
I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House.
Abi Morgan
Kids
Like
House
Bowling
I'm a cheap date.
Abi Morgan
Date
Cheap
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.
Abi Morgan
News
People
Judge
Political
Debate
Become
Only
Emotional
Journalism
Also
Celebrity
Story
News Story
Means
Lives
To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
Abi Morgan
To Be Honest
Otherwise
Kind
Involve
Left-Wing
Thatcher
Any
Going
Fantasy
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
Honest
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
Myself
Somewhere
Looking
Mouth
Else
Background
Definitely
Photos
See
Somewhere Else
Open
Always
Often
Children
Wide
I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.
Abi Morgan
Me
Will
Big
Back
Cripple
Rather
Weeks
Write
Take
Never
Re-Read
Because
Lot
Quickly
Send
Big Thing
Script
Actual
Thing
Draft
Drafts
Two
Two Weeks
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