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Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

Irish - Director | November 30, 1966 -

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

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Style Direction Hidden Room Little

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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Rest Direction Think Camera Body

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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Relationship Trying Hard Director

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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Music American Silent Hollywood Big

Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

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Work Movies Independent Outside Been

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

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Son I Am Famous Jewish Unusual Most

I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

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Go Grandfather Bar Bar Mitzvah He

There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.

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Work Style People Me Fashion You

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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Think Better Argument Now Capture

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.

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School Me Weird Way Bear Kid

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.

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Parents Friends Credit You Go Nice

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

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Me Career Living Way Started Last

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