He got a ticket to see this new film,Star Wars, and he took me along.
I was 12 years old or something.
I remembered looking around.
Jonathan Glazer and Alfonso Cuarón at the BFI SouthbankA24
It was all adults.
I was the only kid there.
That was the first and only screening, so I was the first kid in London to see it.
The other thing [I remember] is, I hated it.
And, as a 12-year-old, you wouldve thought I would.
Glazer credited his father as being a big influence, growing up.
My dad was a big film fan, he recalled, and he had lots of film books.
He used to read about directors.
Hed read about actors, too, but he always said to me, Directors more interesting than actors.
So thats how I started.
My dad was quite conventional in his taste, he said.
[He liked] David Lean, Sidney Lumet, Sidney Pollack, Lindsay Anderson.
So I had quite a classical film education through his interest in those films.
I didnt sit there with him and watch Pasolini.
They felt so dangerous.
I just couldnt believe that people could make films like that, or say things like that in films.
I was introduced to a sort of radicalism, and that appealed to me.
