Danny Boyle Quotes
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 believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.
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On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.
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Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
