79 Quotes by Andrea Arnold

I love insects. They are amazing.

I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

I've always loved America.

I don't think estates are grim places.

I don't read reviews.

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.

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.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

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.