Lynne Ramsay Quotes

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Lynne Ramsay

Profession : Director

Birth : December 5, 1969

Every director has a labour-of-love project.

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Writing's so hard.

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They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

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

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I'm attracted to challenging subject matter.

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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 easy path.

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I hate exposition and superfluous dialogue. I hate when dialogue is trying to explain or patronize or finger-point.

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I love movies like 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' that are based on short novellas.

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I grew up on film noir.

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I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

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There is so much media and social media.

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Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could pick up a lot more money than making films.

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Families are so complicated.

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My brother and my mother had a really difficult relationship; he would exasperate her to death but she'd always be there for him, she always loved him even if she didn't like him at the moment.

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My mum says I was the best kid ever; you could put me in a corner with a box of paints and I'd be happy for hours. They'd say, 'Lynne, Lynne,' and I wouldn't hear them.

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I want an audience.

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I'm interested in genre in a way, I suppose because you have a framework of something and you can just twist it to explore the psychology or try different subversive ideas on something that feels familiar.

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I always say I thought I was making this exciting action movie but I actually always end up making character studies. Every single one.

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I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

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Kevin' is a psychological horror film. It uses genre elements, so hopefully it's exciting to watch.

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