Alan Parker quotes
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“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 ParkerSource : 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 ParkerSource : "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 Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.”
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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 was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.”
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“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.”
-- Alan ParkerSource : Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
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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 ParkerSource : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
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“I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.”
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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 ParkerSource : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
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“Film-making is a physically hard job.”
-- Alan ParkerSource : "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...”
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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. Ive never actually watched another director work.”
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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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“The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.”
-- Alan ParkerSource : "'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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“Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.”
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“Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.”
-- Alan ParkerSource : 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
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