Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold, OBEis an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005 and has since made the leap to feature films and television, including Red Road and American Honey, both of which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Most recently, she directed two episodes of the Emmy-winning series Transparent...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 April 1961
online
I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.
nice kids cowboy
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.
felt fitted generally medium people quite translate trying
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?
chance people
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.
passion thinking people
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.
directors want kind
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
my-own
I just like doing things from my own head.
insects
I love insects. They are amazing.
reviews
I don't read reviews.
tired wandering-around feds
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
scripts hard
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
christmas sleep kids
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.