Film | The Guardian: I’m not sure what I think film directors look like (Do they wear visors? Carry a loudhailer?), but I am very sure Lynne Ramsay doesn’t look like one. In her big beanie hat and jumper, her jeans and boots, Ramsay is a dead ringer for an art student bunking off lectures. Before she sees me, I spot her smoking a roll-up at a table outside the west London cafe where we’re meeting. She’s making notes in an exercise book; she looks perfectly happy.
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Reading about Lynne Ramsay’s experiences was very inspiring. It always feels good to read about strong people who have persevered when you are feeling a bit down yourself. Her method of work seems to be very immersive and she lives how she wants to. It’s interesting that people have said that she is hard to work with, because she seems to work really well with others as long as they share the same goals. I am surprised that she did walk out of the one film that she was working on for so long. It does seem less than professional from the outside, but after hearing her thoughts about what happened it looks a lot more like she stayed for longer than she should have due to pressure from the producers. Her newest film with Joaquin Phoenix sounds incredibly interesting. I hope that she keeps being her and that she gets the success she wants.
I hesitated at the title of this article. While I appreciate an honest and blunt person, I feel as though sometimes there is a way to frame it that is better than others. After reading the article, however, I found myself relatively inspired by her. She has led such an amazing career, and I was really in awe of her passion. She knows what she likes to do, she knows how to make strong choices, and she knows how to defend them. She made a lot of bold decisions to leave projects in which she wasn’t being treated well or her artistic vision was being compromised. I appreciate her point of view that working on a project you don’t believe in is a disservice to you and your project, while I feel as though that sometimes you have to work on something out of necessity to be able to live, I think that her ability to seek out and fight for the artistic pieces she wants to be a part of is a nod to her commitment to her craft.
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