A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

- Andrea Arnold

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

- Andrea Arnold

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

- Andrea Arnold

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

- Andrea Arnold

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

- Andrea Arnold

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

- Andrea Arnold

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

- Andrea Arnold

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

- Andrea Arnold

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

- Andrea Arnold

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

- Andrea Arnold

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

- Andrea Arnold

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

- Andrea Arnold

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

- Andrea Arnold

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

- Andrea Arnold

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

- Andrea Arnold

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

- Andrea Arnold

I love insects. They are amazing.

- Andrea Arnold

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

- Andrea Arnold

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

- Andrea Arnold

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.

- Andrea Arnold