I read three books a week.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.

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

I read three books a week.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.