Adrian Lyne
Adrian Lyne
Adrian Lyneis a British film director, writer, and producer. He is best known for directing films that focus on sexually charged stories and characters, and often uses natural light. He is best known for directing Fatal Attraction, 9 1/2 Weeks, Flashdance, Indecent Proposal, Jacob's Ladder and Unfaithful...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 March 1941
Adrian Lyne quotes about
english-director life totally
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
bit english-director falls french gestures
And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
bit english-director time
Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
english-director instead relationship
I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.
here-and-there stuff directors
Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.
thinking fool actors
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
thinking firsts facts
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
ideas use forget
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
real book thinking
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
encounters honest all-time
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
challenges trying film
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
thinking people guilt
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
thinking space get-better
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
stars men interesting
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.