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

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Andrea Arnold
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 5
Actor
Film Director
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Directors
Characters
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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I just like doing things from my own head.
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Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
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I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.
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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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I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
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I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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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.
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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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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I love insects. They are amazing.
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I don't think estates are grim places.
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I don't read reviews.
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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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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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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
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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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