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.
ADRIAN GOSTICKYou have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.
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I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
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I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor,
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I think you get better at staring into space.
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Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
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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.
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You have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.
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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.
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Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they’re people that you recognize.
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It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn’t eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
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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 was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He’s amazing really.
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Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time.
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It’s the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
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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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And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
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