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 PARKERMaking 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 PARKERWell, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
ALAN PARKERIve never actually watched another director work.
ALAN PARKERHave a go. Anybody can do it.
ALAN PARKERSo fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
ALAN PARKERI’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
ALAN PARKERIt doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
ALAN PARKERPeriod recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
ALAN PARKERA Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
ALAN PARKERI turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
ALAN PARKERThe films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
ALAN PARKERI was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
ALAN PARKERA lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
ALAN PARKERMost directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
ALAN PARKERPersonally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
ALAN PARKERIf 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.
ALAN PARKER