Andrea Arnold

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

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

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.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

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. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?