Danny Boyle Quotes
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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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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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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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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
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I trained in the theatre.
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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
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You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
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I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
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I've always wanted to do a space movie.
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I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
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The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
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The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
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People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.