Quotes

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the right person, you're constantly judging your writing or what it is that isn't working here or not clicking here, because you have amazing actors coming to read for it, and if something's not clicking, it can't be them because they're amazing actors. You're sort of completely doubting yourself.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction, so that you can then use that reaction later for something else. But when it's gratuitous language or physical exposure, then I get a bit like, "Oh! Put it away!"

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mum or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

I went to RADA thinking I was quite a good actor and came out thinking I was appalling.

I write from the point of view of what I'd like to watch. I'm always satisfying my own appetite. So I guess that means transgressive women, friendships, pain. I love pain.

Once you know what makes someone angry, you can tell a lot about that person.