Danny Boyle Quotes

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

Good, Hope, Place

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
Danny Boyle

Life, Feeling, Leave

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
Danny Boyle

Work, Great, Waiting

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
Danny Boyle

Success, Enjoy, Another

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
Danny Boyle

Saying, Two, Here

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

Guy, Arrogant, Nicest

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
Danny Boyle

Down, Pride, Loud

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
Danny Boyle

Life, Important, Sun

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
Danny Boyle

Trust, Time, Try

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
Danny Boyle

Movies, Job, Two

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
Danny Boyle

Powerful, Around, Computer

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
Danny Boyle

Life, Give, Personal

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.
Danny Boyle

Good, Yourself, Different

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.
Danny Boyle

Good, Bad, Decision

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
Danny Boyle

Black, Next, White

Come a crisis, we want other people.
Danny Boyle

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

Destiny, Almost, Feels

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 with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
Danny Boyle

Time, Laugh, America

I am a sci-fi fan.
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 their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny Boyle

Experience, Try, Film

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
Danny Boyle

Serious, Films, Pompous

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
Danny Boyle

Humor, Through, Find

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
Danny Boyle

Person, Bored, Holiday

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
Danny Boyle

Best, Done, Before

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Nationality: English

Born: October 20, 1956

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