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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.
Adrian Lyne
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I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
Adrian Lyne
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I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
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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.
Adrian Lyne
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
Adrian Lyne
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Adrian Lyne
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The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Adrian Lyne
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The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
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Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
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So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.
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I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
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