Quotes from Andrea Arnold

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.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've 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, aren't they?

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

I try and be truthful.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

I love insects. They are amazing.

I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

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

I normally go with the flow.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

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.