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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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.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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

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

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

Danny Boyle

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Danny Boyle

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

Danny Boyle

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

Danny Boyle

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

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