Film Quotes by Ol Parker

11 Film quotes by Ol Parker

Ol Parker’s musings on film are packed into eleven brief lines. The collection is small but gives a clear sense of his creative outlook.

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You can't let movies get in the way of your life.

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I mean, movies need distraction.

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Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.

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Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

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I think films are a really small target. They're really hard to make, and they're a really tiny target.

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The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.

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I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic.

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Sequels are hard. What people want is to see the first film again for the first time and that simply isn't possible.

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I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is…

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The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced,…

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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:…

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'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

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Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

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And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She's all in.

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Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

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I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying.

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'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the…

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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.

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I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it…

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You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable.

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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…

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Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.

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It's the easiest thing in the world, when you're 80, to not go to India to make a movie.

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The greatest moment of all was her on set, and she said, 'Would you mind if you change the order of the phrase?' Maggie…

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Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.

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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…

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