Quotes By Danny Boyle

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I love cities.

I love cities.

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

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

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

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

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

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

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come a crisis, we want other people.

Come a crisis, we want other people.
 
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