Alan Parker Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.