With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Early TV work
After leaving school in the late 70s Arnold got her first TV jobs as a dancer on shows that included Top of the Pops. All the other kids would just bung on some pop music and dance. The film originally premiered on around 45-50 screens in Britain making them less accessible to the general public.

Andrea Arnold OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an Academy award-winning filmmaker and former actress from England who made her feature film directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.