“My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get ...” — Andrea Arnold Quote

“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.”

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

“I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.”

“I got Osgood-Schlatter disease in my knees because my bones were growing quicker than my muscles, and it's hard to get out on the training pitch; then, afterwards, you're in agony every single time you play football.”

“I don't think I had any conscious decision in my love of country music. It was more subconscious, and I think with art in general, I try to follow and listen and read and watch what I like and figure out why I like it afterwards.”

“I was still working at Google when I wrote the blog post '10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings.' I was scared to share it at first because I didn't want my coworkers to think that I was making fun of them - which I totally was. But then afterward I had people coming up to me like, 'I have a meeting trick! Put my meeting trick in your next post!'”