Danny Boyle Quotes
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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 don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
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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 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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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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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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If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
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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 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 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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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
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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 a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
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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 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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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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If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
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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.