"All the great legends are Templates for human……" — John Boorman
"All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived."
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12 Quotes by John Boorman
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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…
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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…
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman.…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking…
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