Quotes from Andrea Arnold

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've not used a score in any of my films so far.

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

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

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

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

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 love insects. They are amazing.

I've got no education.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

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

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

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

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

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

I don't think estates are grim places.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.