Andrew Haigh Quotes
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I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
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Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
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The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems.
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My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
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A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
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I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.
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I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.
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I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.
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When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.
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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.