I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
ALAN PARKERMost directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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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’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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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’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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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’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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