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 Copy Share Image
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 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 find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be… — 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
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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 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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