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.
Alan ParkerWell, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
Alan ParkerMaking 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.
Alan ParkerI always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
Alan Parker