Lynne Ramsay Quotes

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Lynne Ramsay

Profession : Director

Birth : December 5, 1969

I think you're always learning how to explore different territories.

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I just like working with good actors.

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Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on 'The Lovely Bones' for five years before my involvement fell apart.

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

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I'm a big believer in cinema, you know - what it used to be? Images and sound, and working it out a bit. I find it exciting watching films where I just go into an impressive world.

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I'm really lucky to work with such special actors.

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

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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 well, and they like working with me.

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You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.

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I was at film school when I made 'Small Debts' and I was a cinematographer, so I didn't actually study to be a director.

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Gasman' was something I wrote on a beer mat in a pub.

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

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99 percent of the time when you cast right, it's a dream. If you cast wrong, it's a nightmare.

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

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I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.

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

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It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I think I have to respect that.

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My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

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Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

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It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to it on the sci-fi in Glasgow with 'Under the Skin.'

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