Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

Ireland, Film Director
November 30, 1966

Leonard "Lenny" Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing such acclaimed independent films as Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012) and Frank (2014).

Also known as Screenwriter

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
- School
- Weird
I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

Lenny Abrahamson
- Up
- Believe
- Trust

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
- Friends
- Parents
- Nice
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
- People
- Different
- Done
I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

Lenny Abrahamson
- Kids
I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.

Lenny Abrahamson
- People
- Remember