I’ve always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors.
ADRIAN GOSTICKYou know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
More Adrian Gostick Quotes
-
-
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.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
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.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren’t cliche.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
You have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
You know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
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 GOSTICK -
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor,
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
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 GOSTICK -
It’s the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
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.
ADRIAN GOSTICK -
And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
ADRIAN GOSTICK