Andrew Haigh Quotes

Andrew Haigh

Profession : Director

Birth : March 7, 1973

People like a bit of honesty in films.

Andrew Haigh

I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story.

Andrew Haigh

There have been some good British gay films.

Andrew Haigh

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.

Andrew Haigh

With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.

Andrew Haigh

I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.

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 see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.

Andrew Haigh

You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I don't think, at least not for most people, anyways.

Andrew Haigh

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

Andrew Haigh

Personally, I don't like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I'm essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching.

Andrew Haigh

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Andrew Haigh

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

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 like that.

Andrew Haigh

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

Andrew Haigh

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.

Andrew Haigh

Horses terrify me.

Andrew Haigh

'Call Me by Your Name' is essentially the universal nature of love.

Andrew Haigh

The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't usually end good.

Andrew Haigh

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Andrew Haigh

Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.

Andrew Haigh