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

Andrea Arnold

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Andrea Arnold
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 5
Actor
Film Director
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Characters
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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
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I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
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Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
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I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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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.
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I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
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I think the reality is important anyway.
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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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I don't want to think too much about me.
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I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
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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'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.
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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.
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As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
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I don't read reviews.
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I love insects. They are amazing.
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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've always loved America.
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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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