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.Collection: Movies
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.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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.
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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.
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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.
Film-making is a physically hard job.
Have a go. Anybody can do it.Collection: Positive Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Following
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.Collection: Directors
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.Collection: Technology
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.Collection: One Day
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.Collection: Black And White