Quotes By Andrea Arnold

You learn on every film so much.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

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 was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

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

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

I don't think estates are grim places.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

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.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

I don't read reviews.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

I'm lucky.

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 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 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.

I love insects. They are amazing.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

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.

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.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

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.