Explore Quotes by Danny Boyle

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

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

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

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

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

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

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

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

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

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.

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.