Danny Boyle Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Come a crisis, we want other people.
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I love cities.
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I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
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The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
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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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I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
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There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
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I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
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Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
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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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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
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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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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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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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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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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 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.