Quotes By Andrea Arnold

I normally go with the flow.

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 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.

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 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?

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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

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.

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 never write with an actor in mind - never.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

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.

You learn on every film so much.

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 fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

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 was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

I try and be truthful.

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

I don't think estates are grim places.

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

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