Abi Morgan Quotes

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I don't have a lot of friends.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

New York is tough on lonely people.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

The city can be the loneliest place of all.