Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
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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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Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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I try and be truthful.
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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.
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Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
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Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
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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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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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I don't read reviews.
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I just like doing things from my own head.
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As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making 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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We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
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Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've 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, aren't they?
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Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
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I love insects. They are amazing.
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I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
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I don't think estates are grim places.
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I'm much happier behind the camera.
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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.
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I've got no education.
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You learn on every film so much.
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I deliberately never read about films before I see them.