Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

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Lenny Abrahamson

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1966

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'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

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I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.

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Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.

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

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Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

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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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Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.

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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.

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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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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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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

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Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.

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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'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'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

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Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

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The style of direction in 'Room,' maybe a little bit like 'Spotlight,' tries to be hidden.

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I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly what you do as a director, because I think sometimes the conception is if the camera isn't swinging around, and it's not pyrotechnic or worthily melodramatic, then the direction is uninvolved.

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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.

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