Birthplace: Shepperton, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
biography
Renowned for pushing actors (and crews) to their very limit in order to achieve transcendent results, director John Boorman is a committed filmmaker who has refused to settle into fixed genres and remains as commercially unpredictable as he is artistically fascinating. Though he dismisses realism, the location shooting on his movies that pit man against the environment creates conditions that promote it, and his pronounced mystical bent drives him to explore the power of myth in his work. Profoundly influenced by Carl Jung's writings about archetypal imagery, Boorman has often said that all
