Alan Parker

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.

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.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.