Danny Boyle Quotes

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  • Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.
  • I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • 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.

  • The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

    Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

    "Interview: Danny Boyle Talks 127 Hours, James Franco, and Darren Aronofsky". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2010.
  • You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as though you're asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don't think they'll go do that. They want to see a modern story.

    "Danny Boyle Interview, Trance". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
  • Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

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    "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.
  • 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.

    "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.
  • The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

    "Danny Boyle Exclusive Interview 127 HOURS; Plus Updates on Shekhar Kapur’s PAANI, FRANKENSTEIN, the Olympics, and a Lot More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. November 7, 2010.
  • Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.
  • I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

    Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. March 14, 2007.
  • 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.

    "IGN Interviews Danny Boyle". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.
  • There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there's no distinction between the two. There's no way of reading a situation and saying, "Yes, that'll be a bureaucratic nightmare, but that one we'll be able to buy off." It just depends on the day, apparently.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • 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.

  • I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.
  • To create the reality of space with this sense of suspension: nothing's happening, it's endless; we're traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour but nothing's happening. Nothing! And you have to do that! There are all these rules you have to follow, I've never known anything like it.

    "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.
  • Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are gone. 'Trainspotting' did not, and especially with journalists. So whenever I launched a new film, I'd end up talking about 'Trainspotting.'

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

    "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.
  • If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

    "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.
  • There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there's no distinction between the two.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.
  • I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

    "Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to 'T2 Trainspotting'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 22, 2017.
  • If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

    "Interview: Danny Boyle Talks 127 Hours, James Franco, and Darren Aronofsky". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2010.
  • What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

    "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

    "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
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