There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.

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.

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

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

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

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.