Playwright

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

I don't really read that many magazines; I'm more of a browser. I get 'Vanity Fair' quite often if I'm on a train.

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.

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

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House.

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

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.

The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

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

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.

London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.

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.