Quotes by Alan Parker

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

I kind of agonise over what to do next, every time. I don't come to a decision until I've finished the film. I do think you react against what you've just done. If you've done a serious film, you can end up with something lighter, possibly. So I really don't know.

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

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.

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.

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