Alan Parker quote: "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."

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
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We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.
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I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.
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And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make ...
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ALAN PARKER

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that t...
ALAN PARKER

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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Film-making is a physically hard job.
ALAN PARKER

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

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fan...
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit fa...
ALAN PARKER

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to No...
ALAN PARKER

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
ALAN PARKER

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

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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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 ...
ALAN PARKER

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
ALAN PARKER

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
ALAN PARKER

To hold in private or openly make known your judgments of another person's lapse in moral choices wh...
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There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel...
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Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
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When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist....
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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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PARKER STEVENSON

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that i...
PARKER STEVENSON

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PARKER STEVENSON

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewe...
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PARKER STEVENSON

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PARKER STEVENSON

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
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PARKER POSEY

Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I love bayou life.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch...
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PARKER POSEY

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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do...
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PARKER POSEY

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you ...
PARKER POSEY

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And ...
PARKER POSEY

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the coura...
PARKER POSEY

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's n...
PARKER POSEY

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
PARKER POSEY

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down th...
PARKER POSEY

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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PARKER POSEY

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this d...
PARKER POSEY

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee...
PARKER POSEY

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit...
PARKER POSEY

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PARKER POSEY

I like sitting close to windows.
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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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PARKER PALMER

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MACEO PARKER

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MACEO PARKER

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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift...
MACEO PARKER

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
MACEO PARKER

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what...
MACEO PARKER

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER

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DOROTHY PARKER

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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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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