Alan Parker Quotes

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I prefer working behind the camera.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.