Danny Boyle Quotes

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Danny Boyle

Profession : Director

Birth : October 20, 1956

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

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I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?'

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You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

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If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

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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.

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

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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

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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.

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I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

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

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I love cities.

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