I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.
I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.
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.
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.
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.
Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.
