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… — 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… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
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… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
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
