102 Quotes by Lynne Ramsay

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's something fascinating about record collector minds, hoards of quotes shared and dealt like cards, lines traded, images bought.

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

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

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