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• I learned with ‘The Beach’ that I’m a bit better lower down the radar.

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• I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

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

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• I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

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• I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I’ve always loved them because of that.

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• I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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• I trained in the theatre.

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

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• I’d love to do a cop film in America. That’s a genre I absolutely adore.

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• 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 foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

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• I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

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• I’ve always wanted to do a space movie.

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• I’ve never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

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• I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

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

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

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

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

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• It’s easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for ‘A Life Less Ordinary’.

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• It’s not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it’s what you learn about yourself, really. It’s a funny old hippie thing, but it’s true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

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Danny Boyle (55)

Birth:	20th October, 1956
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Daniel "Danny" Boyle was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England. He is an English director, producer and screenwriter, known for his work on films such as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, Sunshine, and 127 Hours. Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won 8, including the Academy Award for Best Director. He was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire.

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