Lyne Quotes

#1. Pain is for a time;healing is for a lifetime"
-Lyne Dahebash-

Lyne Dahebash

#2. I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

Michael De Luca

#3. I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

Dan Trachtenberg

#4. Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

Chad Lowe

#5. And was taken to the Forward Docks and a big, brightly lit hangar, where the Psychopath Class ex-Rapid Offensive Unit Frank Exchange of Views was waiting for her. Ulver laughed. 'It looks,' she snorted, 'like a dildo!' 'That's appropriate,' Churt Lyne said. 'Armed, it can fuck solar systems.

Iain M. Banks

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

Adrian Lyne

#7. If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Adrian Lyne

#8. When I think about it, the happiest, most successful, most fulfilled people I know are the ones who, over time, gave themselves the most permissions - in all areas of their lives. Guided

Sandford Lyne

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

Adrian Lyne

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

Adrian Lyne

#11. And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

Adrian Lyne

#12. 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 in relationship pictures.

Adrian Lyne

#13. 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

#14. For him, to get one's bearings on the world meant to conceive all its contents as simultaneous, and to guess at their interrelationships in the cross-section of a single moment. This

Mikhail Bakhtin

#15. What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Adrian Lyne

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

Adrian Lyne

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

Adrian Lyne

#18. 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 Lyne

#19. I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time ... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

Gillian Jacobs

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

Adrian Lyne

#21. 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 Lyne

#22. Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

Yoko Ono

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

Adrian Lyne

#24. I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.

Adrian Lyne

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

Adrian Lyne

#26. She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

David Halberstam

#27. 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. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

Adrian Lyne

#28. So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

Adrian Lyne

#29. The first time I ever experienced happiness was when I had been lying in bed one night, staring out my window at the stars shining harmoniously.

Jessica Sorensen

#30. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Gardner Dozois

#31. 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 Lyne

#32. Obviously, 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 Lyne

#33. 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. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

Adrian Lyne

#34. Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

Adrian Lyne