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Andrea Arnold Biography

Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is 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, Fish Tank and American Honey, all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Most recently, she directed three episodes of the Emmy-winning series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of Big Little Lies.

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

Cameras, Comfortable, Front, Fronts, Terrified

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.

Films, Flower, Knowing, Opening Up, Personally

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Film, Hear, Issues, Make, Theme

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

Film, Firsts, Like, Start, Starting

I think the reality is important anyway.

Anyway, Important, Reality, Think, Thinking

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Actor, Actors, Mind, Write, Writing

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive 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, arent they?

Book, People, Quite, Thinking, Translate

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Deliberately, Film, Films, Read, See

Sleep your way to the top.

Sleep, Top, Way

I don't think estates are grim places.

Estates, Grim, Places, Thinking

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.

Details, Done, Empathy, Look, Think, Thinking

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

Load, Loads, Online, Quite, Stuff

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

Directors, Films, Kind, Want, Weird

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Close, Hard, Quite, Script, Scripts, Work

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Sense, Think, Thinking, World, Writing

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.

Farm, Flats, Impression, Kids, New York, Nice

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

Instinct, Question, Should, Thinking, Trust

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

Conflict, Darkness, Defined, See, 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.

Forward, Long, Make, Past, Shortcuts, Way

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.

Grim, Passion, People, Physical, Thinking, Wonder

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