I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.