Quotes By Danny Boyle

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.

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.

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.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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.

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.

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

Come a crisis, we want other people.

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.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

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.

I am a sci-fi fan.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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