The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.