Quotes By Danny Boyle

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

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

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. 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.

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

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

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

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

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

I trained in the theatre.

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.

I love cities.

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

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

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

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

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.

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

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

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

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.

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

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

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

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 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.