Cumulatively, it amounts to something more than that. I would like to hope that the way I shoot is similar that it looks like we’re straightforwardly showing you things, and telling you the story, and documenting in a way that people are doing what characters are doing. It doesn’t announce itself as fancy writing, and yet the effect of it is this pared back, insightful prose. It’s kind of low key and it hides its methods. I love her writing, and it resonates with me in terms of how I like to go about making films and shooting stuff. It represents all these fabulous and important changes that have happened culturally here in the last 30 years. And as somebody really interested in the culture where I grew up and where I live, just seeing it through the eyes of this young artist like Sally, who has such an understanding of her generation was just fascinating to me. I loved it for all sorts of reasons, it connects to me in various ways. Lenny Abrahamson: The history of where it came from is relevant in this case, because I read “Conversations with Friends” around the time it came out. IndieWire: Why did you want to tell this particular story? ‘The Great’ Pulled Off Its Own ‘Succession’-Like Shocker to Perfection
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