Quotes by Andrea Arnold

About Andrea Arnold:

Andrea Arnold is an English filmmaker and former actress, who made her feature film directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.
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I love insects. They are amazing.

Andrea Arnold

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

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.

Andrea Arnold

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.

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

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.

Andrea Arnold

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.

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.

Andrea Arnold

I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

Andrea Arnold

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

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

Andrea Arnold

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.

Andrea Arnold

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrea Arnold
  • DescriptionEnglish film director and actress
  • BornApril 5, 1961
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire