Lenny Abrahamson

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.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

The style of direction in 'Room,' maybe a little bit like 'Spotlight,' tries to be hidden.

Nas is one of my favorite rappers because you don't get any of that flashy stuntin'; you get the real, just raw bars. The way he tells stories and his vibe, I think we would make great music together.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.