I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

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.

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

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.