Lynne Ramsay

I'm a big believer in cinema, you know - what it used to be? Images and sound, and working it out a…

— Lynne Ramsay

With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the…

— Lynne Ramsay

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from…

— Lynne Ramsay

You know when people ask sometimes what are you doing, and you say just something to them.

— Lynne Ramsay

We Need To Talk About Kevin,' as an adaptation, was pretty major. It's a long book, and it's in letters, so it…

— Lynne Ramsay

Writing's so hard.

— Lynne Ramsay

My brother and my mother had a really difficult relationship; he would exasperate her to death but she'd always be there for…

— Lynne Ramsay

Where you're running out of time, you have these brainwave moments. It's allowing the space to have them, even in an incredibly…

— Lynne Ramsay

Where I find things tough is when things are hidden, and people don't say what they mean.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm attracted to challenging subject matter.

— Lynne Ramsay

My brother gave my mother a lot of trouble.

— Lynne Ramsay

I love Aphex Twin's 'Rhubarb.'

— Lynne Ramsay

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

— Lynne Ramsay

I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

— Lynne Ramsay

It's hard to trust something completely.

— Lynne Ramsay

I am committed when I make a film and if it takes a long time I would rather wait.

— Lynne Ramsay

A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the…

— Lynne Ramsay

I was at the National Film School and was a cinematographer there. I got quite a lot of experience on documentary film-making…

— Lynne Ramsay

If you feel you have made a great piece of work, which the script for 'The Lovely Bones' was, and that it…

— Lynne Ramsay

I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.

— Lynne Ramsay

To me, most filmmaking is a kind of visualization of how people are. The dark, the light, the absurdity of life, all…

— Lynne Ramsay

My mother told me to stay away from boys, but that didn't work out.

— Lynne Ramsay

In my short film, 'Gasman,' I shot it at a kid's party. And the kids were just having a party - they…

— Lynne Ramsay

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

— Lynne Ramsay

Every director has a labour-of-love project.

— Lynne Ramsay