Quotes By Danny Boyle

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.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

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'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.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

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.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

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.

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.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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