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
decision film
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
I've not used a score in any of my films so far.
I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.
films
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
acted cast massive obviously opportunity
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
course life people work
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
past long way
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.
people way obsessed
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
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.
flower opening-up knowing
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.
scripts hard
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.