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!

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

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

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.