Alan Parker
Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBEis an English film director, producer and screenwriter. Parker's 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 February 1944
actors film crew
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.
people want littles
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
death-penalty reason penalties
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
views people film
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
one-day london shoulders
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
different directors filmmaker
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
following ifs
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...
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job.
thinking feelings tvs
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.
democratic diplomatic
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
editing solitude directors
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
black-and-white periods recreation
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
fascists critics aesthetic
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.