Abi Morgan Quotes

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are good, bad, complex and close to reality.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.

I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

I just love strong female characters in general, not necessarily because, 'She's evil' or 'Oh, because she's good.'

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.

Though the characters I have played are all very different, they are all strong, interesting women.

Especially for young girls growing up, it would be lovely to see strong women who don't necessarily need to be sexy or find that interesting. Or have to be the girlfriend or the mother. They can play complex characters that you want to follow and make you believe that you can be strong as well.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.