Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
ALAN PARKERI’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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This seems quite good, a bit familiar.’ Then I realise … It’s one of my movies. It’s a pretty odd feeling.
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If you’d been where I’d been… if you’d seen the things I’d seen!… you… you’d be me… Or someone following me around.
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Making a film is so hard that if you don’t have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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