The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything. Phoebe Waller-Bridge More Quotes by Phoebe Waller-Bridge More Quotes From Phoebe Waller-Bridge I'm a massive control freak. Phoebe Waller-Bridge controlmassivecontrol-freakfreak Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?' Phoebe Waller-Bridge saysomethinglikesituation The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day. Phoebe Waller-Bridge feeldaymesurprise I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth. Phoebe Waller-Bridge challengethinkjourneycharacter People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest. Phoebe Waller-Bridge controlthinktryingpeople We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin. Phoebe Waller-Bridge womaneyesyouhair You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain. Phoebe Waller-Bridge crosstopseeyou Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights. Phoebe Waller-Bridge youwomenconfusedmen I feel liberated being around women who are liberated. Phoebe Waller-Bridge feelwhobeingwomen 'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them. Phoebe Waller-Bridge viewknowmeyou There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing. Phoebe Waller-Bridge aboutsomethingverybritish You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!' Phoebe Waller-Bridge endfeelyouchange As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash. Phoebe Waller-Bridge goodwomenchangetime Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view. Phoebe Waller-Bridge viewdinnerjokesfamily The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers. Phoebe Waller-Bridge camerafriendmyselfrelationship I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. Phoebe Waller-Bridge justvergetearsjoy I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing. Phoebe Waller-Bridge goingsayingalwayspowerful I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago. Phoebe Waller-Bridge my-ownchangemindnight I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things. Phoebe Waller-Bridge relationshipswritejustthings
