John Boorman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I told my brothers what happened. Are you ready to come meet them?"
She straightened. "Aye."
"I warn you," he teased in an attempt to lighten the mood. "They're big, burly bampots.

Lisa Carlisle

#4. Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

Mark Hoppus

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

John Boorman

#6. Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.

Kirsty Logan

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

John Boorman

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

Gavyn Davies

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

John Boorman

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

John Boorman

#13. 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

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

John Boorman

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

John Boorman

#18. We'd be safer with musket in a safe town than with an assault rifle in a "without rule of law" world. That may not be sexy, but it's the truth.

Michael Mabee

#19. 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

#20. The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Denis Waitley

#21. You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

Henry Cloud

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.

M.F. Moonzajer

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

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. 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

#29. Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

Robert Burns

#30. 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