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.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.