I am committed when I make a film and if it takes a long time I would rather wait. — Lynne Ramsay Cinema Copy Share Image
I think if you sell parts of your soul, you don't really know who you are anymore. — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I don't really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to 'X Factor' - I like trash… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I… — Lynne Ramsay Books Copy Share Image
I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs. — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know? — Lynne Ramsay Adaptation Copy Share Image
I'd get people asking me about my terrible, poor childhood which, in fact, was very normal, and I'd think, would you be… — Lynne Ramsay Childhood Copy Share Image
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
My mum says I was the best kid ever; you could put me in a corner with a box of paints and… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
On a film shoot, a crew will know instantly when they are dealing with someone who knows the technical stuff and they… — Lynne Ramsay Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a… — Lynne Ramsay Approach Copy Share Image
I've got a reputation for being difficult, and yet with my crew and my cast, I'm super-collaborative and we get on really… — Lynne Ramsay Being Copy Share Image
It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter? — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Straight talking and going on your instincts was important when I grew up. And being funny. — Lynne Ramsay Being Copy Share Image
Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a… — Lynne Ramsay Cinema Copy Share Image
When I was younger, making films was so all-consuming. It was a life-or-death thing. Films still mean so much to me when… — Lynne Ramsay Attitude Copy Share Image
If you feel you have made a great piece of work, which the script for 'The Lovely Bones' was, and that it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
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 Body Copy Share Image
Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could… — Lynne Ramsay Books Copy Share Image
