Danny Boyle

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

— Danny Boyle

I trained in the theatre.

— Danny Boyle

I am a sci-fi fan.

— Danny Boyle

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

— Danny Boyle

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

— Danny Boyle

Come a crisis, we want other people.

— Danny Boyle

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

— Danny Boyle

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

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

— Danny Boyle

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

— Danny Boyle

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

— Danny Boyle

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

— Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

— Danny Boyle

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save…

— Danny Boyle

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

— Danny Boyle

You can do anything you like - really - but this Sci-Fi is absolutely disciplined, it's Zen, you have to be absolutely…

— Danny Boyle

To create the reality of space with this sense of suspension: nothing's happening, it's endless; we're traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour…

— Danny Boyle

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them…

— Danny Boyle

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

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking…

— Danny Boyle

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

My kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle…

— Danny Boyle

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back…

— 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

If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is…

— Danny Boyle

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

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to…

— Danny Boyle

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day…

— Danny Boyle

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and…

— 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

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their…

— Danny Boyle

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle

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

— Danny Boyle