Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back… — 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
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
I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk… — 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
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
If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is… — 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
It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an… — 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
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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