A Quote by Alan Parker
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people.
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
I always wanted to make films that might change or at least focus people's views.
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.
Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.
The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before.
People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.
Big wins in the first Test of an Ashes series polarise everything moving forward.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.
The vampire or the bad guy, that's what people do remember. Lars von Trier, like Guy Maddin, their films are made for a group of exclusive people who like special films. And they are special films, they are art films. And I started with commercial films at the beginning, and later on, because you know, when you are an actor, you have the same cliché like everybody else, you want to be in big films, you want to be known and all that.
I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.
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