I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

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.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.