When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.