102 Quotes by Lynne Ramsay

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

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.

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.

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

I love to see great dialogue in the cinema but I hate to see 'Film TV.'

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

It's funny - sometimes when you approach people they get freaked out but occasionally you'll find a gem who's unselfconscious in front of the camera.

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

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.