33 Quotes by John Boorman

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.

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.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.