Danny Boyle Quotes

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

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• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Way
  • Difficult
  • Aim

• With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Remember
  • Victory

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Influence
  • My Own
  • Height

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Body

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
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  • Facebook

• We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • King
  • Understand

• I think human societies tend to be problematic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Human
  • I Think

• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

  

  Chris Massoglia
  • People
  • Live

• One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Life
  • Car
  • Summer

• I love going to work.

  

  Charlie Weber
  • Work

• I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Work
  • Rain
  • Ask

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

  

  Danny Boyle
  • City
  • Beach