Sean Durkin
Sean Durkin
Sean Durkinis a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for Martha Marcy May Marlene. His short film, Mary Last Seen, on the same theme as Martha, won the award for best short film at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. In 2013 Durkin directed the Channel 4 drama series Southcliffe starring Sean Harris and Rory Kinnear...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 December 1981
soccer player goal
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
photography kids writing
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
firsts anticipation horror
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
trying actors feels
I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
real crafts filmmaking
Filmmaking is a real craft.
kids littles scared
When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.
long way subtle
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
sports team people
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
cutting creating editing
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
morning prayer school
I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.
actors film bigs
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
people months rowdy
You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.
writing please
You can't write something to please someone.
writing matter no-matter-what
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.