Danny Boyle Quotes

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

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

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• You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’

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

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• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

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• There’s lots of things that can be solved with cash.

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• 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.

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• The problem with being British… I don’t know if it’s me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

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• 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.

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• The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.

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• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force.

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• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

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• 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.

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher’s mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

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

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

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

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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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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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