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Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

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John Boorman

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.

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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.

Character, Idea, Play, See, Thinking, Whole
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