Danny Boyle Quotes

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

I trained in the theatre.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.