Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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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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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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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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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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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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Have a go. Anybody can do it.
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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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