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.
ALAN PARKERSo fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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Have a go. Anybody can do it.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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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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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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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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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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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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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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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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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.
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