Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
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I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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I don't want to think too much about me.
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People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
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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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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 want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
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I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
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I normally go with the flow.
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I was 18 when I got my first TV job.
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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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.
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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've not used a score in any of my films so far.
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Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
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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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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
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I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
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I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.
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Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
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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 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.