Danny Boyle Quotes
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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
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As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
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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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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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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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Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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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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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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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
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Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.
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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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I am a sci-fi fan.
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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
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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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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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Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
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I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
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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 easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.