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 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
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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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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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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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The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
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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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I think you get better at staring into space.
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Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time.
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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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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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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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You have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.
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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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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’ve always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors.
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What I think is interesting is that the more you do.
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