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 Read Quote
I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we’re shooting. You have breakfast on set. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
After ‘Adam and Paul,’ I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it’s also a very difficult place in which to find your voice… It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people’s minds. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
When I read ‘Room,’ I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think of myself as doing good works. It’s not, ‘Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.’ Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
