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If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.