Quotes by Danny Boyle

About Danny Boyle:

Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English film director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, 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. Boyle 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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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle

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.

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 ...

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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 tha...

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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...

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

Author Bio

  • NameDanny Boyle
  • DescriptionEnglish film director, producer and screenwriter
  • BornOctober 20, 1956
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; Directors Guild Of America Award