Adrian Lyne

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

— Adrian Lyne

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

— Adrian Lyne

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

— Adrian Lyne

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

— Adrian Lyne

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

— Adrian Lyne

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

— Adrian Lyne

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I…

— Adrian Lyne

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you…

— Adrian Lyne

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

— Adrian Lyne

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've…

— Adrian Lyne

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a…

— Adrian Lyne

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested…

— Adrian Lyne

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have…

— Adrian Lyne

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore…

— Adrian Lyne

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there…

— Adrian Lyne

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way…

— Adrian Lyne

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything…

— Adrian Lyne

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered…

— Adrian Lyne

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's…

— Adrian Lyne

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to…

— Adrian Lyne

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different…

— Adrian Lyne

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene…

— Adrian Lyne