Quotes By Andrea Arnold

I love insects. They are amazing.

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

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

I'm much happier behind the camera.

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

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

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

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 normally go with the flow.

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

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

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

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 was 18 when I got my first TV job.

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 just like doing things from my own head.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

You learn on every film so much.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.