39 Quotes by Ol Parker

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    It's the nicest thing when you're constantly surprised by your partner.

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    'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

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    These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' and 'Like Crazy,' all of which reject the standard happy-ever-after formula.

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    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.

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    The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.

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    I think films are a really small target. They're really hard to make, and they're a really tiny target.

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    There is a scene that I wrote with the line, 'It's a terrible day when a man's daughter brings a boy home for the first time.' I'll never be ready for it, I would like to stop my children growing, I don't know how to handle it.

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    It's the easiest thing in the world, when you're 80, to not go to India to make a movie.

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    And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She's all in.

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