Abi Morgan

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

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 literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

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

'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.

The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.