39 Quotes by Ol Parker

I have no goals or ambitions whatsoever.

It's always tricky when someone who's not used to it volunteers to be an extra and you want to go, 'Listen, you're going to be sitting there for a long time.'

You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable.

Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.

I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it came on the radio my mum just drove right past the school gates! When you're 11 years old and meant to be going back to boarding school, that's a great feeling.

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.

I mean, movies need distraction.

I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying.

I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.