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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
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Directors
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I've always loved America.
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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 think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
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I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
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I don't want to think too much about me.
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Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
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America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.
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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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Sleep your way to the top.
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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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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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I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
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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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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.
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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 do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
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I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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I don't read reviews.
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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