Danny Boyle Quotes
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.
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Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.
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I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
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I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
