Alan Parker Quotes

• Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

  Alan Parker

  Rain, Film, Fine

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

  Alan Parker

  Art, People, Helping

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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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.

  Alan Parker

  Editing, Solitude, Directors

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Have a go. Anybody can do it.

  Alan Parker

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Can Do

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• Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

  Alan Parker

  Death Penalty, Reason, Penalties

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• Film-making is a physically hard job.

  Alan Parker

  Jobs, Film, Hard

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

  Alan Parker

  Different, Film, Made

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• A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

  Alan Parker

  Movie, Inspiring, Vision

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• I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

  Alan Parker

  Democratic, Diplomatic

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• I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

  Alan Parker

  Fascists, Critics, Aesthetic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

  Alan Parker

  Thinking, Feelings, Tvs

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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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.

  Alan Parker

  Following, Ifs

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• Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

  Alan Parker

  Directors, Different, Filmmaker

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• Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

  Alan Parker

  People, Directors, Want

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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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.

  Alan Parker

  Actors, Film, Crew

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

  Alan Parker

  Technology, Watches, Matter

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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'.

  Alan Parker

  One Day, London, Shoulders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

  Alan Parker

  Black And White, Periods, Recreation

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

  Alan Parker

  Views, People, Film

  "'Awards stink. Especially when other people win them and you don't'". BFI interview, www.bfi.org.uk. March 10, 2003.

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