So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
ALAN PARKERIf 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.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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I’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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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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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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Have a go. Anybody can do it.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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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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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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