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Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.
Lenny Abrahamson -
As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.
Lenny Abrahamson
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Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.
Lenny Abrahamson -
I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.
Lenny Abrahamson -
It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.
Lenny Abrahamson -
Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.
Lenny Abrahamson