Danny Boyle

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

— 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

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre…

— Danny Boyle

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

— Danny Boyle

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment,…

— Danny Boyle

One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's…

— 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

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

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to…

— Danny Boyle

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to…

— Danny Boyle

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or…

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

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

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

— Danny Boyle

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

— Danny Boyle

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the…

— Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

— Danny Boyle

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

— 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

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because…

— Danny Boyle

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films…

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make…

— Danny Boyle

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

— 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