I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

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

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.