John Boorman Quotes
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.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
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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.
