Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.

In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry.

Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

I'd do whatever it takes to stay in California; maybe not L.A. because it's so crazy.

I didn't have an acting job when I moved to L.A. I was just naive enough to think that moving to L.A. was the next step after college. My parents were really supportive.

I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn't for me. I was sort of lost at sea.

I left England because I was not playing.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

I was such a mama's boy that no one imagined that I could come into the film line. She wanted me to do a bank job.

My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new.

I'd never even gone on a date before moving to London.