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• ‟ I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

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• ‟ I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.

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• ‟ I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

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• ‟ Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

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• ‟ I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.

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• ‟ A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

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