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...

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

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

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.

You learn on every film so much.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

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....