Latest John Boorman Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Thinking, Reflection, Interesting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked off the seat of their pants and went along with things. At that time, they were very uncertain about what to make because of the influence of television. A lot of really terrific movies were made. But then the studios gradually became more corporate and were owned by corporations and run in that way and now they're very nervous. You see what they make - sequels, franchises and try not to take risks.

  John Boorman

  Running, Risk, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Thinking, Unexpected, Surprise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

  John Boorman

  Fantasy, Filmmaking, Socialist

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, 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. And 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.

  John Boorman

  Religious, Art, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  John Boorman

  House, Needs, Royal

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Color, Tree, Green

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Black And White, World, Way

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Religious, Art, Book

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

• 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.

  John Boorman

  Black And White, Color, Choices

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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

  John Boorman

  Dream, Black And White, Giving

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.