Andrew Haigh Quotes

Andrew Haigh

Profession : Director

Birth : March 7, 1973

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

Andrew Haigh

Relationships are so important to all of us.

Andrew Haigh

When I made 'Weekend,' the idea that 'Moonlight' would win the Oscar would be like, Whaaaaat? Like, that's not going to happen.

Andrew Haigh

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

Andrew Haigh

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

Andrew Haigh

That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'

Andrew Haigh

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

Andrew Haigh

No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.

Andrew Haigh

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

Andrew Haigh

I think the gay community is made up of so many little different things, different parts, different people... I think that can be quite hard for people. You think you've found your tribe, but actually, that isn't your tribe, and then you have to keep searching for what kind of makes sense.

Andrew Haigh

I like going to a new environment with open eyes.

Andrew Haigh

The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.

Andrew Haigh

One of the reasons I wanted to make 'Lean on Pete' was that it wasn't about identity. For me, it's about something more essential underneath: the need to have somewhere to live, to be safe, and have someone to look after you.

Andrew Haigh

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Andrew Haigh

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

Andrew Haigh

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.

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 to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

Andrew Haigh

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

Andrew Haigh

'Looking' was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It's a gay-themed show, so you're not going to get millions of straight people watching it - that's the inevitability of it.

Andrew Haigh

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Andrew Haigh