Explore Quotes by Danny Boyle

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

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.

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.