Words matter. These are the best Andrea Arnold Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sometimes when you’re going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
We’re all quite vulnerable human beings really.
Once I’ve finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
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 don’t want to think too much about me.
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people’s.
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.
Every time I start a film I feel like I’m starting the first time, ever.
You learn on every film so much.
Films are all about decisions, and that’s what I love.
I normally go with the flow.
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 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 was 18 when I got my first TV job.
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 work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
I don’t think estates are grim places.
I’m much happier behind the camera.
I’ve not used a score in any of my films so far.
I never write with an actor in mind – never.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict – but I don’t see the world as defined by them.
I’ve got no education.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn’t trained.
I love insects. They are amazing.
I just like doing things from my own head.
I try and be truthful.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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.
A lot of people have something to say about ‘Wuthering Heights,’ but nobody quite nails it.
I don’t feel very revengeful in life at all.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on 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.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn’t acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can’t afford to buy weather.
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.
I’m lucky.
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.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there’s a way of making films.
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
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.