Boorman Quotes

#1. In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait.

Joe Morgenstern

#2. I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

Powers Boothe

#3. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.

Kelly Jones

#4. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#5. I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.

Mark Twain

#6. 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.

John Boorman

#7. There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

John Boorman

#8. All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

John Boorman

#9. There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

#10. Careful," he chided with a grin. "First you talk marriage and now you're telling me what to eat. You're sounding more and more like a real girlfriend every day. Just remember, this is still our first date, so keep your hands to yourself tonight. I'm not one of those guys.

Jennifer Shirk

#11. When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

Juan Enriquez

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

John Boorman

#13. I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

John Boorman

#14. Sleep, Maya," he murmured softly.
"Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

Sara Humphreys

#15. Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.

Pamela Morsi

#16. 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

#17. Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

John Boorman

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

John Boorman

#19. if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

Charley Boorman

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

John Boorman

#21. I've never had apple pie," I blurted out.
...
"You've never had apple pie?"
"No."
His brows rose. "Why?"
"I don't know. Just never tried it."
"That's so ... so un-American," he said, and I rolled my eyes. "Are you a terrorist?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

John Boorman

#23. Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.

Steven Kotler

#24. My wife and I never agree on the dishtowels. It's a matter of terms. She asks me not to put the dishtowel in the sink. So I drape it over the sink, but not in the sink. If that's our biggest problem, I think we're in good shape.

Paul Reiser

#25. I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Rick Derringer

#26. The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

John Boorman

#27. Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

John Boorman

#28. When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction I want from the crowd.

DJ Shadow

#29. I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

John Boorman

#30. What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

John Boorman

#31. Black and white is much closer to the condition of
dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

John Boorman

#32. I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

John Boorman

#33. 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

#34. When I was with him, I felt as if my life had finally come back to me.

Haruki Murakami

#35. Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#36. Strive to always do what is right,not in the eyes of others,but in your own heart.Others thoughts are transitory-One moment they will love you,the next day they will not.Act on what is right in your own heart and there will be victory!!

Aivy Denisse Sto.Domingo

#37. 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 critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

John Boorman