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. – Andrea Arnold
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. – 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. – Andrea Arnold
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict – but I don’t see the world as defined by them. – Andrea Arnold
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. – Andrea Arnold
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. – Andrea Arnold
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. – Andrea Arnold
I can’t remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. – Andrea Arnold
A lot of people have something to say about ‘Wuthering Heights,’ but nobody quite nails it. – Andrea Arnold
People ask, ‘Are your things autobiographical?,’ and I think, no, they’re not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. – Andrea Arnold