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.
- Have a go. Anybody can do it.
- A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
- Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
- Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
- The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
- I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
- Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
- It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
- 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...
- Film-making is a physically hard job.
- 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…
- I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
- I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
- 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.
- Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
- A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
- I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
- 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…