I’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
ALAN PARKERA lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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Have a go. Anybody can do it.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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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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I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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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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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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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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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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