102 Quotes by Lynne Ramsay

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

To be honest, I was on the verge of thinking I didn't even want to be a film-maker, just because making 'Ratcatcher' had been so tough. Afterwards, I was just ill. Knackered.

I think if you sell parts of your soul, you don't really know who you are anymore.

I can't lose sleep over people who need every last thing spelled out for them.

It's hard to trust something completely.

I love Aphex Twin's 'Rhubarb.'

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

At the time I left film school there wasn't a lot of hope for young film-makers. It was a calling card of film school to be quite slick and commercial, which might lead to getting some stuff on telly.

To me, most filmmaking is a kind of visualization of how people are. The dark, the light, the absurdity of life, all the crazy things, you know? So all of the characters that I've made have been really close to my heart. I guess what I'm interested in is just visualizing a really three-dimensional picture of a person.