I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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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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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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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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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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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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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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