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.
ALAN PARKERI’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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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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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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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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