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I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.
- Ol Parker
#America
#First
#Hotel
#People
#Really
There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.
- Ol Parker
#Aim
#Back
#Better
#Coming
#Sports
I think films are a really small target. They're really hard to make, and they're a really tiny target.
- Ol Parker
#Hard
#Make
#Small
#Target
#Think
It's the easiest thing in the world, when you're 80, to not go to India to make a movie.
- Ol Parker
#Easiest Thing
#Go
#India
#Make
#World
I mean, movies need distraction.
- Ol Parker
#Distraction
#Mean
#Movies
#Need
You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable.
- Ol Parker
#India
#Only
#Shoot
#Three
#Year
'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the corner.
- Ol Parker
#Coming
#Corner
#People
#Queen
#Street
The structure and formula are now so well-known that it's become very hard for the film-maker not to commit the cardinal sin: letting the audience get ahead of the film. So it takes some real sparkle - of which I thought 'Man Up' had plenty, especially in the writing - to keep the viewer enjoying a by-now predictable journey.
- Ol Parker
#Ahead
#Journey
#Man
#Real
#Sin
The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.
- Ol Parker
#Director
#Film
#Possible
#Relationship
As I get older, I find the things that I thought would be sorted by now aren't. The idea of writing stuff like that for a much older generation was incredibly appealing.
- Ol Parker
#Find
#Generation
#Now
#Things
#Writing
Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.
- Ol Parker
#Film
#Look
#Take
#Would
#Writing
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.
- Ol Parker
#Bigger
#Film
#Happen
#Paradox
#Two
Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.
- Ol Parker
#Being A Teenager
#Importance
#Moment
I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.
- Ol Parker
#First
#Love At First Sight
#Love
#Sight
The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced, and then, three years later, you look at each other on set while you're making a film about lesbian cheerleaders. You're like, 'How did that happen?!'
- Ol Parker
#Film
#Look
#Movies
#Start
#Three
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