John Boorman famous quotes

03-25-2025

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
-- John Boorman

#Actors #Suits #Range
Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.
-- John Boorman

#Dream #Black And White #Giving
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
-- John Boorman

#Stories #Legends #Behavior
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
-- John Boorman

#Black And White #Color #Choices
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
-- John Boorman

#Character #Thinking #Play
The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
-- John Boorman

#Black And White #World #Way
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
-- John Boorman

#Sex #Passion #Self
There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.
-- John Boorman

#Religious #Art #Book
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...
-- John Boorman

#Passion #Doe #Unbearable
All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.
-- John Boorman

#Art #People #Upset
I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.
-- John Boorman

#Color #Tree #Green
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...
-- John Boorman

#House #Needs #Royal
What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.
-- John Boorman

#Inspirational #Passion #Becoming
I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguousÂ world; it's like ours but different.
-- John Boorman

#Trying #Different #World
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
-- John Boorman

#Japan #Numbers #Directors
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.
-- John Boorman

#Thinking #People #Cynical
I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
-- John Boorman

#Special #Scene #Communicate
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
-- John Boorman

#Acting #Actors #Position
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
-- John Boorman

#Thinking #Romantic Love #Two Sides
Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.
-- John Boorman

#Wall #Light #The End Of The Day
And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?
-- John Boorman

#God #Poor #Show Business

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