Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Was he leaving home, or going home?

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.