Andrea Arnold Quotes About Film
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When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.
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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 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 find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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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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Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
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Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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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 wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” 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.
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I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
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Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
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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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As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
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