Famous Quotes

Quotes by Danny Boyle

• 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 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.
• 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.
• I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
• 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 love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
• I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
• 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.
• I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
• 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.
• I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
• I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
• It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
• 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.