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Lenny Abrahamson

Irish Director

Born: Nov 30, 1966

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with. Lenny Abrahamson

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It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them. Lenny Abrahamson

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

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There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well. Lenny Abrahamson

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I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me. Lenny Abrahamson

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When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it. Lenny Abrahamson

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens. Lenny Abrahamson

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

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

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

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For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene. Lenny Abrahamson

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I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater. Lenny Abrahamson

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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. Lenny Abrahamson

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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

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When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir. Lenny Abrahamson

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I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people. Lenny Abrahamson

The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.' Lenny Abrahamson

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