Film Quotes by Andrew Haigh

I do make films for personal reasons.

— Andrew Haigh

People like a bit of honesty in films.

— Andrew Haigh

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

— Andrew Haigh

I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.

— Andrew Haigh

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

— Andrew Haigh

In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they're trying…

— Andrew Haigh

There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I…

— Andrew Haigh

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's…

— Andrew Haigh

I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't…

— Andrew Haigh

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on…

— Andrew Haigh

I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the…

— Andrew Haigh

My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to…

— Andrew Haigh

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over…

— Andrew Haigh

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have…

— Andrew Haigh

My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped…

— Andrew Haigh

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no…

— Andrew Haigh

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If…

— Andrew Haigh