Andrew Haigh Quotes

Andrew Haigh

Profession : Director

Birth : March 7, 1973

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

Andrew Haigh

I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.

Andrew Haigh

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

Andrew Haigh

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

Andrew Haigh

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.

Andrew Haigh

I do make films for personal reasons.

Andrew Haigh

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

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A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

Andrew Haigh

I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of, and when you leave the cinema, your mind is ablaze with different thoughts!

Andrew Haigh

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

Andrew Haigh

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing.

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Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

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 other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

Andrew Haigh

I haven't got muscles, and I don't live in West Hollywood.

Andrew Haigh

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

Andrew Haigh

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

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

Andrew Haigh

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

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