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
people want littles
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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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.
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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.
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And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make up their own minds.
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We believe there is potential for up to 4,000 rooms in the Gulf region alone over the next few years.
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I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.
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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.
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
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Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
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It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
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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...
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Film-making is a physically hard job.