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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
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I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
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I don't think estates are grim places.
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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 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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I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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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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Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
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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 find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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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 don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
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I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
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Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
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I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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I just like doing things from my own head.
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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Sleep your way to the top.
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I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
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