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  • I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

  • I love insects. They are amazing.

    "Andrea Arnold in Brontë Country". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.
  • 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.

    "Director Andrea Arnold On Her Next Film: 'It’s Going to Involve Lots of Wild Kids, Rihanna and a Bear'". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2013.
  • I don't read reviews.

  • I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

    "Andrea Arnold in Brontë Country". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.
  • 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.

    "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.
  • I've always loved America.

    "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.
  • 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.

    "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.
  • I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

  • I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

  • I don't think estates are grim places.

  • Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

    "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.
  • When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

  • 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.

    Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.
  • I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

    Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.
  • A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

  • Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

  • 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.

  • Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

    "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.
  • I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

    Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.
  • 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.

    "Real life in the Fish Tank" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.
  • 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.

    "Writer-Director Andrea Arnold Talks WUTHERING HEIGHTS at Sundance". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.
  • I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't want to think too much about me.

    "Andrea Arnold: 'I don't do easy rides'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2011.
  • I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

    "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.
  • I think the reality is important anyway.

    "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.
  • I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

    Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.
  • I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

  • 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.

    Source: collider.com
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