The 5-minute Interview: Adrian Lyne, Film-maker
'You have to desire things absolutely'
The British film director Adrian Lyne, 66, received an Academy Award nomination for 'Fatal Attraction'. He also directed '9 1/2 Weeks', 'Indecent Proposal', 'Flashdance' and 'Lolita', and is working on an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's thriller 'The Town'
If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be...
Checking up on my local football team, Olympique Marseilles, on the internet.
A phrase I use too often...
"Sort of".
The most surprising thing that happened to me...
Was being able to make my living being a director.
I am not a politician but...
I would have given the Palestinians a homeland.
A common misperception of me is...
That I'm some sort of sex maniac. People take certain aspects of films like 91/2 Weeks, or Fatal Attraction, and attribute that element to me
I'm good at...
Making sorbets.
I'm very bad at...
Gymnastics.
The ideal night out is...
Playing pétanque, followed by a wonderful meal. Then I'd go and watch Olympique Marseilles beat Paris Saint-Germain three-nil.
In weak moments I...
Eat too much – I do everything to excess, really!
You know me as a film director but in another life I'd have been...
That suggests I'm living a lie! I've no idea.
The best age to be is...
37. After that I could see my decline in the mirror.
My philosophy is...
You have to desire things absolutely, obsessively.
Shumi Bose
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