I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

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

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.