Quotes from Ol Parker

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.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it's just a Freudian concept by definition, and there's more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian... she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.

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.

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

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 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.

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

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