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 Copy Share Image
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
To force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people:… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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