'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
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.
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.
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.
Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.
Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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 am always running away from something.
I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.
I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.
I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.
I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.
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.
I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'