Words matter. These are the best Danny Boyle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I haven’t got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
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.
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They’re frozen in time.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’
It’s easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for ‘A Life Less Ordinary’.
I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don’t practice anymore or anything.
I always say to anybody who’s going over to America for the first time, ‘Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.’ Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody’s so quiet, scared to laugh. It’s like being in church.
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
I’d love to do a cop film in America. That’s a genre I absolutely adore.
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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.
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.
You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it’s true, you don’t. You don’t even remember people who disappear.
The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn’t do it.
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don’t seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
I always think, when there’s stuff that people don’t like, I always say that if I have another success, I’ll enjoy it more, but you don’t really.
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 that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
Celluloid will be the next decade’s black and white.
I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
It’s not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it’s what you learn about yourself, really. It’s a funny old hippie thing, but it’s true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.
I’m not a ‘Star Wars’ geek.
I don’t want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
I trained in the theatre.
