Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Andrea Arnold
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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.
I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
I just like doing things from my own head.
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
You learn on every film so much.
I've not used a score in any of my films so far.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I've got no education.
I don't think estates are grim places.
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.
I try and be truthful.
I normally go with the flow.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
I don't read reviews.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
I was 18 when I got my first TV job.
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.
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.
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
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?
I'm much happier behind the camera.
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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.
I love insects. They are amazing.
I'm lucky.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
I don't want to think too much about me.
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
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.
America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.
Sleep your way to the top.
I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.
I think the reality is important anyway.
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.
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” 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.
I've always loved America.
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive 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, arent they?
Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.
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