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“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.”

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John Boorman

John Boorman, born on January 18, 1933, is an acclaimed filmmaker from Ireland. His works are known for their profound humanistic concerns and unique narrative style, with notable films including 'Point Blank' and 'Braveheart'. more

“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.”

People Want Art Feelings Dangerous Perception Art Is Notion Relate Upset Our Thoughts Subversive Good Art Thoughts And Feelings

Author:John Boorman

“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.”

Study Tree Color Green My Time Freak Nurturing

Author:John Boorman

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

Needs House Lord Royal Abolish Royal Family House Of Lords

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“I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at the entire movie and really allow the movie to be the creative vision of the actors, the writer and myself, because I'm in charge of it from a producer and a director point of view.”

Thinking Giving Looks Actors Opportunity Views Vision Creative Directors Give Me Point Of View Producers Creative Vision

Author:Tony Krantz

“I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.”

Ifs Giving Kind I Can Reality Lines Responsibility Fire Give Me Good Things Financial Boss

Author:Tony Krantz

“When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.”

Able Decision Structure

Author:Tony Krantz

“When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.”

Want Giving Book Good Friend

Author:John Hodgman

“I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.”

Ifs Knows Rooms Degrees Doctors Medical Psychological

Author:John Oliver

“I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.”

Book Fiction Fantasy Written Science Fiction Fiction Writers

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

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