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. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
I am an unusual Irishman. I’m probably Ireland’s third most famous Jewish son. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
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. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The style of direction in ‘Room,’ maybe a little bit like ‘Spotlight,’ tries to be hidden. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
