I think films are a really small target. They're really hard to make, and they're a really tiny target. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
Sequels are hard. What people want is to see the first film again for the first time and that simply isn't possible. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
The structure and formula are now so well-known that it's become very hard for the film-maker not to commit the cardinal sin:… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced,… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script. — Ol Parker Copy Share
And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She's all in. — Ol Parker Copy Share
Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone. — Ol Parker Copy Share
'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the… — Ol Parker Copy Share
I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it. — Ol Parker Copy Share
I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it… — Ol Parker Copy Share
You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable. — Ol Parker Copy Share
There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better… — Ol Parker Copy Share
Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine. — Ol Parker Copy Share
It's the easiest thing in the world, when you're 80, to not go to India to make a movie. — Ol Parker Copy Share
The greatest moment of all was her on set, and she said, 'Would you mind if you change the order of the phrase?' Maggie… — Ol Parker Copy Share
Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing. — Ol Parker Copy Share
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is that the… — Ol Parker Copy Share
