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John Boorman has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
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Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…
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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
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I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…
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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
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The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
— Lord Byron
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
— Orson Scott Card
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I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when…
— Laurence Olivier
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But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and…
— Robert Klein
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
— Bette Davis
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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie…
— Annette Bening
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Good acting is consistency of performance.
— Jim Dale
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually…
— Brian De Palma
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Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that…
— Oren Peli
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a…
— Tara Strong
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
— John Boorman
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Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled…
— George Henry Lewes
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