Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
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Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
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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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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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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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I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
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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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As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
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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'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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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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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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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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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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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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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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Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
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Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.
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'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.
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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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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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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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There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.