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.

He was educated at Highgate School. He is best known for directing films that focus on sexually charged characters and often uses natural light a fog machine and other effects to create eroticized atmospheres. Adrian Lyne (born 4 March 1941 in Peterborough then in Northamptonshire England) is an English filmmaker and producer.