"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."

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Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

Alan Parker

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Helping Quotes

“You have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media.”
“I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.”
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
“It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”
“Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.”
“If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.”
“Success is never final, but failure can be.”

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