Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

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.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

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

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...

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.