I’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
ALAN PARKERRain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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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 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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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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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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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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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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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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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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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 always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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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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