Andrea Arnold Quotes About Film

Quotes about: 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

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

• 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.

• I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Film

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

• 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.

• 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

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

  Andrea Arnold

  Want, Film, Finished

• As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

  Andrea Arnold

  Long, Way, 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

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

  Andrea Arnold

  Firsts, Film, Starting

• 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.

• Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

  Andrea Arnold

  Decision, Film

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

• 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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