Quotes By Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

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

I'm lucky.

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?

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

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

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

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.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

I love insects. They are amazing.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

I normally go with the flow.

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.

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.