Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

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.

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

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

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.