““I pretended very hard to be completely nonchalant. No use dressing for success if you’re going to cringe like a whipped dog for two hours. I used to tell myself that since I was going to die, I should attempt to die with some style. Smile a world-weary smile of annoyance when the engines exploded. Raise one eyebrow when the wing cracked off. I tried to look bored. It’s hard to look bored when you are jerking in your seat at every bump as if you have been slipped twenty volts. So I tried to look bored, but energetic. …. I’d pat back a little yawn, stroll to the bathroom – and make deals with God. In the toilets of major airlines I have fervently renounced every sin in my life. Lord, just let me get down alive. Kill me any other way but this.””
![“Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/a-r-rahman-4481_cutting_since-i-worked-with-danny-boyle-before-o_539.jpg)
