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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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 turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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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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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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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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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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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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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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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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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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