Alan Parker Quotes

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

— Alan Parker

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

— Alan Parker

“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

“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

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

— Alan Parker

“Film-making is a physically hard job.”

— Alan Parker

“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

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

— Alan Parker

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

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

— Alan Parker

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

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

— Alan Parker

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

— Alan Parker

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

— Alan Parker

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

— Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

— Alan Parker

“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

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

— Alan Parker

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