Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
From Lenny Abrahamson
I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.
I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
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.
Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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.
The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
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