Quotes By Andrea Arnold

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

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

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

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 love insects. They are amazing.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

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.

I normally go with the flow.

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.

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 try and be truthful.

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.

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.

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

I just like doing things from my own head.

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

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.

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

I've got no education.

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.

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.