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Every step that I have taken in my career has made me new to something, once again. I like not knowing everything and exposing myself to the unknown, he says. That same impulse led him to send a script for the film adaptation of The Father to Anthony Hopkins, an actor he had never met, and who Zeller would wind up directing in his cinematic debut, which won him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and netted Hopkins his second Oscar for best actor.

"I think I was the only child who didn't cry. I was probably quite numb," Roemer explained to Vulture's Bilge Ebiri in an interview earlier this year.