Scared Is What You're Feeling.

The Film World Is Far More Male-dominated. I Mean, The Numbers Are Staggering At The Level Of How Many People On Set There Are, And Almost All The Trades In Film, There's A Lot More Men. So I Can See Without Anyone Intending To Be Biased [that] We Have Kind Of A Collective Choosing Of Men's Stories And A Collective Of Taking Men's Stories Seriously.

I Needed To Do A Lot Of Saying No. I Had A Lot Of [interest] From People Who I Just Didn't Think Were Quite Right For It. And I Didn't Want A Bad Film To Be Made Of The Book, Either A Sentimental One Or A Creepy One, So I Did A Lot Of, "no Thank You." Then When The Right Filmmaker Came Along, Yes, I Suppose I Presented Myself Very Much As Wanting To Be The Writer.

A Memoir Is Always The Most Authentic Telling Of A Situation, But A Novel Gets To Different Places.

I Guess The Feminism In "room" Springs To Mind Most.

There May Be Certain Genres That Men Dominate, But Fiction Not So Much. The Question Of Prizes Is Tricky Because There Are So Many Prizes.