Danny Boyle Quotes

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

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• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

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• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

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• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

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• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

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• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

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• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

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• Bullies always have another target.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  

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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

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• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

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• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

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• The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

  

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• I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

  

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• Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

  

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

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• And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

  

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• I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.

  

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• You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Great
  • Music
  • Bored