John Boorman

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

— John Boorman

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

— John Boorman

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

— John Boorman

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

— John Boorman

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

— John Boorman

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

— John Boorman

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

— John Boorman

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I…

— John Boorman

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…

— John Boorman

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…

— John Boorman

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…

— John Boorman

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

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who…

— John Boorman

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…

— John Boorman

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…

— John Boorman

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is…

— John Boorman

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or…

— John Boorman

All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money.…

— John Boorman

In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked…

— John Boorman

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…

— John Boorman

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part…

— John Boorman

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…

— John Boorman

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…

— John Boorman

Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so…

— John Boorman

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting…

— John Boorman

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was…

— John Boorman