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Top 15 John Boorman Quotes (2024 Update)

John Boorman Quote: “What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.”

1. “What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.”

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

2. “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

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

3. “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

John Boorman Quote: “What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...”

4. “What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...”

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.”

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

— John Boorman

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John Boorman Quote: “And you poor creatures – who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?”

6. “And you poor creatures – who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?”

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...”

7. “The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...”

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

8. “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

John Boorman Quote: “When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.”

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

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “I’m trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It’s a contiguous world; it’s like ours but different.”

10. “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

John Boorman Quote: “Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it’s very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.”

11. “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

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

12. “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

John Boorman Quote: “I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.”

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

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa’s crew.”

14. “I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa’s crew.”

— John Boorman

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

15. “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

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

16. “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

John Boorman Quote: “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.”

17. “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

John Boorman Quote: “Even in a godless world, rituals are required.”

18. “Even in a godless world, rituals are required.”

— John Boorman

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