“Filmmaking is rarely glamorous. Being ankle deep in pig shit every day is the reality.”
“A film director has to have the sensitivity of a poet and the stamina of a construction worker. The trouble is that rather too many of us get it the wrong way around.”
Alan Parker directing Bob Geldof in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
“Francois Truffaut said that British Cinema was an oxymoron. (Like French Rock music.)”
“I think you have to be strong willed and swift of foot to survive in Hollywood. I always said we are guerrillas on bicycles stealing our art away from them.”
And There’s More Where That Came From….
You can read my interview with Alan Parker talking about the career of fellow filmmaker and Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow here.
HOLLYWOOD ( and all that ) 
ow is the ‘Frankly Seth’ cartoon attached to Alan Parker? is it his? that’s been floating around in music editorial circles for years…
It is indeed his. He produced several books’ worth of cartoons about the industry.