"When actors are being defensive and defending their……" — John Boorman
"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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12 Quotes by John Boorman
John Boorman has 12 quotes on this site.
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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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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…
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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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More Acting Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
— Julian Assange
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
— Rowan Atkinson
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
— Kevin Bacon
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
— Kevin Bacon
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