I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. — 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
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use… — 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
As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.'… — 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
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them… — 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
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
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and… — 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… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with… — 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
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
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time. — Danny Boyle Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 it completes… — Danny Boyle Copy Share
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