Top 19 Alan Parker Quotes

#1. I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

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#2. Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

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#3. Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

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#4. 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.

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#5. A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

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#6. I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

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#7. I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

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#8. Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

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#9. A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

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#10. Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

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#11. Film-making is a physically hard job.

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#12. 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 ...

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#13. I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

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#14. 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.

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

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#16. 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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#17. Have a go. Anybody can do it.

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#18. 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.

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#19. The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

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