Skip to content

Books Quote by 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 was a real editing experience to boil that down and make it cinematic. I learned a lot doing that film.” quote by Lynne Ramsay — Download Open 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 was a real editing experience to boil that down and make it cinematic. I learned a lot doing that film.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Books Cinema Editing Experience Letters Long Real

More by Lynne Ramsay

I want an audience.

Image

I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

Image

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

Image

I hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an…

Image

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

Image

I grew up on film noir.

Image

It was quite a macho world I grew up in, but it was always cheeky and funny, and the women were the ones in…

Image

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If you stick to your vision and you're true to yourself, it kind of works. I mean, it's tough. It's a big Fitzcarraldo journey, but then you'll have your good karma at the end of the day. You'll have…

Sometimes what you don't show creates more of a mystery.

Image

You know, I grew up in a place where people appreciate it when you're very direct.

Image

I try to keep very simple ideas and keep them as emotionally powerful as possible.

Image

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something…

Image

Explore all 103 Lynne Ramsay quotes

More Books quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Image

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

Browse all 59,475 Books quotes