What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person. John Boorman More Quotes by John Boorman More Quotes From John Boorman What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family. John Boorman royal house needs 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 way world 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 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 black-and-white dream giving 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 green color tree 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 book art The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth... and kill! John Boorman