Danny Boyle Quotes
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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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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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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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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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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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You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
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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'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.
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I've always wanted to do a space movie.
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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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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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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 like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
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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.