Quotes by John Boorman

John Boorman

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people’s perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

Art

Feelings

People

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

Behavior

Legends

Stories

All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They’re making these big, very expensive pictures that take a lot of money but don’t really pay for their costs. So they’re having a very difficult time. I can see the system breaking down. I think the American studios are a reflection or a metaphor for American industry altogether, which is failing in the world. Its economic domination is being broken down and I think the same thing is happening to the studios.

Interesting

Reflection

Thinking

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

Clay

God

Poor

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.

Black And White

Dream

Thinking

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

Black And White

Dream

Giving

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.

Character

Play

Thinking

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.

Color

Green

Tree

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

Scene

Special

Talking

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

Surprise

Thinking

Unexpected

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Clay

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Different

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Doe

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Feelings

Filmmaking

Giving

God

Green

House

Inspirational

Interesting

Japan

Legends

Light

Needs

Numbers

Passion

People

Play

Poor

Position

Range

Reflection

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Risk

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Royal

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Sex

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Quotes by John Boorman

John Boorman

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

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