John Boorman
John Boorman
John Boormanis an English film-maker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama, and Queen and Country. He has directed a total of 22 films and has received five Academy Award nominations...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 January 1933
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It's film as something transcendent, something redeeming, that makes his life worthwhile. It's a tremendously life-affirming film. And yet it's about not making a film. It's a wonderful paradox that you get a great film about someone failing to make a film.
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Before I start shooting I have all the actors know where we are going with every scene, what the intention is and where we are trying to get to.
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I think that as a director you have to at the very least shape the script; structure it. Otherwise you're not really doing your job.
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What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...
color tree green
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.
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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.
thinking people cynical
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.
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And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?
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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 flickering on a wall.
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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.
thinking romantic-love two-sides
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.
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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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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
black-and-white world way
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.