Danny Boyle

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

— Danny Boyle

I trained in the theatre.

— Danny Boyle

I am a sci-fi fan.

— Danny Boyle

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

— Danny Boyle

Come a crisis, we want other people.

— Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

— Danny Boyle

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

— Danny Boyle

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

— Danny Boyle

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

— Danny Boyle

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

— Danny Boyle

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

— Danny Boyle

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get…

— Danny Boyle

I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there…

— Danny Boyle

I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.

— Danny Boyle

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

— Danny Boyle

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

— Danny Boyle

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

— Danny Boyle

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

— Danny Boyle

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

— Danny Boyle

Events in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that…

— Danny Boyle

Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It…

— Danny Boyle

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular…

— Danny Boyle

There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want…

— Danny Boyle

The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for.…

— Danny Boyle

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become…

— Danny Boyle

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost…

— Danny Boyle

Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them.…

— Danny Boyle

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to…

— Danny Boyle

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.…

— Danny Boyle

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day…

— Danny Boyle

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and…

— Danny Boyle

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their…

— Danny Boyle

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like…

— Danny Boyle

Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get…

— Danny Boyle

If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is…

— Danny Boyle

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

— Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

— Danny Boyle

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

— Danny Boyle

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

— Danny Boyle

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

— Danny Boyle