Andrea Arnold famous quotes

06-13-2025

When your charactersÂ areÂ really living they tell you what they do.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Character #Really Living
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Adversity #Flying #Fur
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

#Thinking #Empathy #Details
I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Believe #People
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Revengeful #Feels
I don't read reviews.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Reviews
I don't think estates are grim places.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Thinking #Estates #Grim
I don't want to think too much about me.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Thinking #Want #Too Much
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Directors #Want #Kind
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Issues #Film #Theme
I just like doing things from my own head.
-- Andrea Arnold
I love insects. They are amazing.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Insects
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Writing #Mind #Actors
Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Want #Film
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?
-- Andrea Arnold

#Book #Thinking #People
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Film
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

#Writing #Thinking #World
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
-- Andrea Arnold

#People #Way #Obsessed
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

#Christmas #Sleep #Kids
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Feds #Wander #Fed Up
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Writing #Class #Grew Up
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,
-- Andrea Arnold

#Cameras
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Thinking #Instinct #Should
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
-- Andrea Arnold

#People #Nails #Height
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Long #Way #Film
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Darkness #World #Conflict
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Firsts #Film #Starting
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Decision #Film
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.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Lonely #Trying #Way
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Scripts
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or â€œgrimâ€ or â€œgritty,â€ I just think, â€œOh, come on, look a bit deeper.â€ 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

#Passion #Thinking #People

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