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
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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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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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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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Film-making is a physically hard job.
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I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
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A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
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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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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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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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Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God,
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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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This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a close.
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We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.