Author: 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.

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

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

- Lenny Abrahamson

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

- Lenny Abrahamson

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

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

- Lenny Abrahamson

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.

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.

- Lenny Abrahamson

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

- Lenny Abrahamson

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

- Lenny Abrahamson

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