“'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to ...” — Lenny Abrahamson Quote

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd just work as long as I wanted into the night. There was no structure.

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

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

My father used to take us on his bike to the academy, which was 25 km away from our house. We were struggling a lot but there was a strong belief that eventually cricket will take care of everything. And it did.

One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic - and, in some ways, as a figure, at least within the academy - Williams was what England had in the generation after Orwell, and toward the end of his life, he became more critical of his predecessor.

I got into the Exeter academy at under-11s - I came for my first trial when I was nine and didn't get in. If it came when I was 16 I'd have been very disappointed, but luckily I had that time to improve and become a better player.