You have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.
ADRIAN GOSTICKWhere you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they’re people that you recognize.
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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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I think you get better at staring into space.
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Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I’ve heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
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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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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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The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
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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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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back.
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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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What I think is interesting is that the more you do.
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You know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
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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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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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I was watching Monster’s Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It’s just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done.
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