A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
ALAN PARKERI’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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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 always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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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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Have a go. Anybody can do it.
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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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I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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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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