Assistants Quote by John Boorman

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

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

— John Boorman

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

— John Boorman

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

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'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

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

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

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

— John Boorman

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

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

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…

— John Boorman