Emma Donoghue Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• [E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.

  Emma Donoghue

  Cute, Coffee, Kids

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

• For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Normal, Emotion

  "Frog Music review - Emma Donoghue's sophisticated whodunnit" by Alex Preston, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

• I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

  Emma Donoghue

  Clever, Hands, Laughing

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.197, Pan Macmillan

• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

• Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Know How, Ideals

• Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

  Emma Donoghue

  Children, Eye, Thinking

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

• I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

  Emma Donoghue

  Motherhood, Thinking, Hymns

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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