Alan Parker

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  • Every time I`ve been to Cannes, I`ve made up my mind never to return. Every time my vanity wins over.
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  • 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.
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  • The films that I do tend to polarise people`s views.
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  • I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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  • A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
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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. Particularly within the Hollywood machine. They`ve allowed more stars to take over and it can make everyone else`s life a misery. But the truth is the actors are doing their job just the same as the camera assistant and the costume designer and everybody else.
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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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  • Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
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  • Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
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  • Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
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  • Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I`ve never actually watched another director work.
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  • Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991
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  • In an interview for The Road to Wellville (1994), Parker stated that his mission as a filmmaker was to make at least one movie for each genre available.
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  • His sons Alexander Parker and Jake Parker help their father out on a lot of his projects, e.g. composing the score for The Life of David Gale (2003).
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  • Usually, his films end with either the main character dying or end with a depressing down note (see Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), Evita (1996), The Life of David Gale (2003), Angela's Ashes (1999), Mississippi Burning (1988) and Midnight Express (1978)).
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  • Has published several collections of film industry-related cartoons, including "Hares in the Gate" (1983).
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  • Considers Oliver Stone as his strong antagonist since their collaborations on Midnight Express (1978). Parker even declined several times to give him WGA credits for his previous work on Evita (1996), but finally agreed to do so after a long deliberation with WGA's law representatives.
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  • Is friends with director Tony Scott, whom he sponsored to direct The Hunger (1983) for producer Richard Shepard.
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  • Appointed a C.B.E. in 1995 and knighted in the 2002 New Year's Honours List. Now known as Sir Alan Parker.
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  • He was a founding member of the Directors' Guild of Great Britain and has lectured at film schools around the world.
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  • Writes the press kit annotations for journalists at advance screenings himself. Has done so since 1981.
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