33 Quotes by John Boorman

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.