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 Copy Share Image
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
