Andrea Arnold Quotes

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• When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

  Andrea Arnold

  Character, Directors, Filmmaking

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• I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

  Andrea Arnold

  Adversity, Flying, Fur

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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.

  Andrea Arnold

  Thinking, Empathy, Details

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• 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 “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Andrea Arnold

  Writing, Thinking, World

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• When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Independent, Home

  "Director Andrea Arnold On Her Next Film: 'It’s Going to Involve Lots of Wild Kids, Rihanna and a Bear'". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I think the reality is important anyway.

  Andrea Arnold

  Reality, Thinking, Important

  "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.

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• I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

  Andrea Arnold

  Past, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Darkness, World, Conflict

  "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.

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• Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

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  Tired, Wandering Around, Feds

  "Andrea Arnold Tackles An Iconic Love Story". Interview with Ella Taylor, www.npr.org. October 9, 2012.

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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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  Issues, Film, Theme

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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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  Lonely, Trying, Way

  "Real life in the Fish Tank" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

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  Firsts, Film, Starting

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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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  Book, Thinking, People

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• I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Nice, Kids

  "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.

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• I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

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  Directors, Want, Kind

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• I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Flower, Opening Up, Knowing

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

  Andrea Arnold

  Stuff, Online, Load

  "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.

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• Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

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  Want, Film, Finished

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• I never write with an actor in mind - never.

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  Writing, Mind, Actors

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I love insects. They are amazing.

  Andrea Arnold

  Insects

  "Andrea Arnold in Brontë Country". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I just like doing things from my own head.

  Andrea Arnold

  My Own

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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.

  Andrea Arnold

  Christmas, Sleep, Kids

  "Writer-Director Andrea Arnold Talks WUTHERING HEIGHTS at Sundance". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

  Andrea Arnold

  Thinking, Instinct, Should

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I don't want to think too much about me.

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  Thinking, Want, Too Much

  "Andrea Arnold: 'I don't do easy rides'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2011.

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