Danny Boyle Quotes

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Danny Boyle

Profession : Director

Birth : October 20, 1956

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.

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

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

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

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

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I've always wanted to do a space movie.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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I am a sci-fi fan.

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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.

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I trained in the theatre.

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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.

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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.

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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

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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.

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