Danny Boyle Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Celluloid will be the next decade’s black and white.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I don’t want to make pompous, serious films.

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• I am a sci-fi fan.

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• 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.

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• I grew up in a city, I’m a city person – I go on holiday and I’m bored.

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• 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.

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

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

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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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