Quotes By Andrea Arnold

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

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

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

I don't think estates are grim places.

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.

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

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

I don't read reviews.

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

I'm lucky.

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

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

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've got no education.