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
writing mind actors
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
insects
I love insects. They are amazing.
online
I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.
my-own
I just like doing things from my own head.
issues film theme
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
directors want kind
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
I've always loved America.
thinking want too-much
I don't want to think too much about me.
thinking estates grim
I don't think estates are grim places.
reviews
I don't read reviews.
country complicated
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.
revengeful feels
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
writing class grew
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
adversity flying fur
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.