Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they’re people that you recognize.
ADRIAN GOSTICKThe challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren’t cliche.
More Adrian Gostick Quotes
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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
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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.
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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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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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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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I’ve always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors.
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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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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.
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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 looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
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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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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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The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
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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 think you get better at staring into space.
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