Andrea Arnold Quotes

I'm just a sucker for a good script and people that are passionate about it. I love independents.

I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.