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There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.
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'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
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I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
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I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
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I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.
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On your first film, you think these are going to be your closest friends for the rest of your life. You form a bond, but then you go back to the rest of your life.
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I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd just work as long as I wanted into the night. There was no structure.
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I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
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Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
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As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
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I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
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I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
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There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
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If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
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Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
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In something like 'Frank,' which is a comedy, albeit a strange and emotional one, you can absolutely put in deleted scenes, and we did because they were just funny and great, but they weren't necessary in the overall structure.
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I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
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That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
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When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.
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