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Andrea Arnold [1961-0] English

Rank: 102
Actress, Filmmaker

Andrea Arnold, OBE is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005 and has since made the leap to feature films and television, including Red Road, Fish Tank and American Honey, all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Amazing, Christmas, Family, Trust

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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.	Family	101
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.		102
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.		103
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.	Christmas	104
I love insects. They are amazing.	Amazing	105
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.	Trust	106
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.		107
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.		108
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.		109
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.		110
Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.		111
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.		112
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.		113
I'm much happier behind the camera.		114
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.		115
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.		116
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.		117
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.		118
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.		119
I try and be truthful.		120
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.		121
I was 18 when I got my first TV job.		122
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.		123
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.		124
I don't think estates are grim places.		125
I'm lucky.		126
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.		201
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.		202
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?		203
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.		204
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.		205
I don't read reviews.		206
I don't want to think too much about me.		207
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.		208
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.		209
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.		210
I normally go with the flow.		211
I've got no education.		212
I've not used a score in any of my films so far.		213
I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.		214
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.		215
I never write with an actor in mind - never.		216
I just like doing things from my own head.		217
You learn on every film so much.		218
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.		219
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.		220
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.		221
I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.		222
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.		223

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