Have a go. Anybody can do it.
ALAN PARKERHave a go. Anybody can do it.
ALAN PARKERFilm-making is a physically hard job.
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.
ALAN PARKERIve never actually watched another director work.
ALAN PARKERA lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
ALAN PARKERSo fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
ALAN PARKERI was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
ALAN PARKERPersonally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
ALAN PARKERWell, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.
ALAN PARKERThe films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.
ALAN PARKERI’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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.
ALAN PARKERMost directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
ALAN PARKERI always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.
ALAN PARKERI turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
ALAN PARKERI’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.
ALAN PARKER