What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

Stories are a different kind of true.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.