Danny Boyle quotes - page 2

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. (Danny Boyle)
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. View quote
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. View quote
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Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant. View quote
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I trained in the theatre. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. View quote
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The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. View quote
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I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. View quote
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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. (Danny Boyle)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. View quote
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Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. View quote
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Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Danny Boyle)
I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me. View quote
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I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything. View quote
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