Andrea Arnold Quotes

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

Every piece of work has been a learning experience.

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

Most of the films that I do help me learn something.

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I'm still learning my craft.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot.

I just know that making 'Beast' was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director's first feature, and every day, you're just trying to do good work and learn.

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you need something to base everything on.

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

Every project I do, I learn something new.

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.