39 Quotes by Ol Parker

I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.

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.

'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.

I wouldn't make the film that was an hour and half progression from sadness to despair. I'm hugely optimistic.

Bill Nighy has an idiosyncratic delivery.

Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of the viewer.

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?!'

I just did what any writer does, tried to listen to the characters, whether they're 18 or 80.