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

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

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

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.