Alan Parker Quotes

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

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• Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Want
  • Speak
  • Find

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Bitter

• I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • Food
  • Garden

• BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Financial
  • Complexity

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Ideas

• Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Always
  • Yourself

• Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Culture
  • Gay
  • Process

• People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • People
  • Life
  • Achievement

• I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Guy
  • Day

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • World
  • Home

• Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Together
  • Chaos

• When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Army

• I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Dream
  • Peace

• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Value

• If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

  

  Odette Annable
  • World
  • Women
  • Fight

• In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

  

  John Desmond Bernal
  • Art
  • May
  • Future

• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

  

  David Gelernter
  • Language
  • Creating
  • Aesthetic

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

  

  Alan Parker
  • Aesthetic