Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

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

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

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.

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