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

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

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

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.

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.

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.