Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Parker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British director Alan Parker.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sir Alan William Parker was an English filmmaker. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.

British - Director | February 14, 1944 - July 31, 2020

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

Alan Parker

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

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Parker

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

Alan Parker

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

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

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

Alan Parker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

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