33 Quotes by John Boorman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.