Top 49 Andrea Arnold Quotes

#1. I love insects. They are amazing.

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#2. I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

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#3. I never write with an actor in mind - never.

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#4. People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

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#5. A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

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#6. I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

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#7. Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

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#8. I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

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#9. My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

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#10. Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

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#11. I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

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#12. I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

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#13. I'm much happier behind the camera.

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#14. Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

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#15. I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

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#16. I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

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#17. Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

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#18. I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

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#19. I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

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#20. I try and be truthful.

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#21. I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

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#22. For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

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#23. I don't want to think too much about me.

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#24. When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

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#25. I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

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#26. I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

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#27. Sleep your way to the top.

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#28. I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

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#29. As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

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#30. I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

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#31. I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

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#32. I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

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#33. We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

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#34. Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

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#35. I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

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#36. I don't think estates are grim places.

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#37. I just like doing things from my own head.

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#38. With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

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#39. Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

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#40. I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

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#41. I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

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#42. I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.

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#43. Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

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#44. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

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#45. I normally go with the flow.

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#46. I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

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#47. Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

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#48. You learn on every film so much.

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#49. Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

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