Lynne Ramsay Quotes

• 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 your good soul. You know, if you start to sell little bits of it, you, you become nothing and nobody, and you don't have any vision remaining.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Karma, Mean, Journey

  "Lynne Ramsay Talks WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, the Patti Smith Biopic, Adapting FRANKENSTEIN & Her Sci-Fi Take On DAS BOOT Meets MOBY DICK In Outer Space". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. January 15, 2012.

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• When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Real, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the world. The market is used to a male voice and a male audience, which it feeds

  Lynne Ramsay

  Voice, Perspective, Males

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

  Lynne Ramsay

  Whole Life

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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 financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Class, Way, Levels

  "Lynne Ramsay: 'Just talk to me straight'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Working with cool people helps when working with few shots. You trust yourself and them.

  Lynne Ramsay

  People, Helping, Trust Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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