Danny Boyle Quotes

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Danny Boyle

Profession : Director

Birth : October 20, 1956

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

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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.

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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.

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.

Danny Boyle

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

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I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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