People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

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

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.

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.