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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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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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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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
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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?'
