Alan Parker Quotations

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.

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

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

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'.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

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

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...

Film-making is a physically hard job.

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.

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

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

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

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

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

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

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.

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.

Pauline Kael is the Rambo of film critics... a demented bag lady.

I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.

We believe there is potential for up to 4,000 rooms in the Gulf region alone over the next few years.

This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a close.

We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.

And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make up their own minds.

Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God,

People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa content means that it contains far less sugar than the average chocolate bar.

It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do, ... just being away from my kids and my family. That's all I thought about everyday.