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 Copy Share Image
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… — John Boorman Copy Share
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too? — John Boorman Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, 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. And 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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 of that,… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They're making… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
