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 mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

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.