Danny Boyle Quotes
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Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
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I trained in the theatre.
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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
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You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
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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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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 like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.
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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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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
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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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You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
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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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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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I've always wanted to do a space movie.
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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.
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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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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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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.