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

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.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

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

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.