Adrian Lyne Quotes

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Intimacy is healing.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.