Quotes by Alan Parker

• The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
• A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
• 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.