Abi Morgan

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

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

I was never cool as a kid. ”

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. ”

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? ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer. ”

There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.' ”