Alan Parker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Parker

#Rain #Film #Fine
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 Parker

#Art #People #Helping
A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
-- Alan Parker

#Vision #Filmmaker #Evolve
Have a go. Anybody can do it.
-- Alan Parker

#Positive Thinking #Thinking
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
-- Alan Parker

#Different #Film #Made
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
-- Alan Parker

#Fascists #Critics #Aesthetic
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
-- Alan Parker

#Black And White #Periods #Recreation
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

#Editing #Solitude #Directors
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
-- Alan Parker

#Democratic #Diplomatic
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 Parker

#Thinking #Feelings #Tvs
Film-making is a physically hard job.
-- Alan Parker

#Jobs #Film
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

#Following
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
-- Alan Parker

#Technology #Watches #Matter
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

#Directors #Different #Filmmaker
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
-- Alan Parker

#One Day #London #Shoulders
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
-- Alan Parker

#Views #People #Film
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
-- Alan Parker

#Death Penalty #Reason #Penalties
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
-- Alan Parker

#People #Directors #Want
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

#Actors #Film #Crew

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