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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. ”
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there. ”
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her. ”
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 social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage. ”
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. ”
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. ”
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on. ”
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. ”
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. ”