All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, … - John Boorman

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

John Boorman

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

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