I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
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.
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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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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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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
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I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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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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It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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Ive never actually watched another director work.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.
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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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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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