Alan Parker Quotes
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I`ve never actually watched another director work.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
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`.
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. Particularly within the Hollywood machine. They`ve allowed more stars to take over and it can make everyone else`s life a misery. But the truth is the actors are doing their job just the same as the camera assistant and the costume designer and everybody else.
A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
The films that I do tend to polarise people`s views.
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.
Every time I`ve been to Cannes, I`ve made up my mind never to return. Every time my vanity wins over.
