Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
ADRIAN GOSTICKWell, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
ADRIAN GOSTICKSomebody 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 GOSTICKObviously, 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.
ADRIAN GOSTICKIt’s the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
ADRIAN GOSTICKI 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 GOSTICKI’ve always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors.
ADRIAN GOSTICKI think that there are points where you become so close to an actor,
ADRIAN GOSTICKTheir 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 GOSTICKThe danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
ADRIAN GOSTICKAnd the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
ADRIAN GOSTICKEspecially living in the South of France.
ADRIAN GOSTICKAlways, 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 GOSTICKWhat I think is interesting is that the more you do.
ADRIAN GOSTICKI think you get better at staring into space.
ADRIAN GOSTICKIt made me feel very old, really, because it wasn’t eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
ADRIAN GOSTICKThe interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
ADRIAN GOSTICK