Danny Boyle Quotes
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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
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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?'
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You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
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If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
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Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
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I am a sci-fi fan.
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To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
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Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
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Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.
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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
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If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
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It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.
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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
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Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
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I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
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Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.