"You can't get an actor to do something……" — John Boorman
"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."
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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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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…
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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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