Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

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 must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

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

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.