Quotes By Andrea Arnold

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.

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

I try and be truthful.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I've got no education.

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

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

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.