Andrea Arnold Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.”
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“I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.”
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“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.”
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“I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.”
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“I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.”
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“I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.”
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“I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.”
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“I just like doing things from my own head.”
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“I never write with an actor in mind - never.”
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“Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.”
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“Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive 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, arent they?”
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“I deliberately never read about films before I see them.”
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“I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.”
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“I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.”
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“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.”
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“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.”
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“I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.”
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“I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,”
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“I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.”
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“A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.”
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“As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.”
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“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.”
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“Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.”
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“Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.”
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“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.”
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“I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.”
-- Andrea Arnold
