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.
ALAN PARKERIve never actually watched another director work.
More Alan Parker Quotes
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I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.
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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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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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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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Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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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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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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So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.
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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 Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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