Quotes By Danny Boyle

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.

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

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.

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.

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 like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

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.

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

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?'

I love cities.

I trained in the theatre.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

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

Come a crisis, we want other people.