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Alan Parker [1944-0] British

Rank: 106
Director, Film director

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is 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.

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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.		101
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.		102
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.		103
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.		104
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.		105
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.		106
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.		107
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.		108
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.		109
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.		110
Film-making is a physically hard job.		111
A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.		112
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.		113
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'		114
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.		115

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