I always think, when theres stuff that people dont like, I always say that if I have another success, Ill enjoy it more, but you dont really. – Danny Boyle
The problem with being British… I dont know if its me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success. – Danny Boyle
Im a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. – Danny Boyle
Id love to do a modern-day musical thats 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
You can have great sequences with music, but if you dont have the acting youre bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but youre like, So what? – Danny Boyle
I love that sense of change that youd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. – Danny Boyle
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. Ive always loved them because of that. – Danny Boyle
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and its true, you dont. You dont even remember people who disappear. – Danny Boyle
Movies about space raise those questions of what were doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension. – Danny Boyle
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and its humor thats often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. – Danny Boyle
Its a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. – Danny Boyle
Its not so much what you learn about Mumbai, its what you learn about yourself, really. Its a funny old hippie thing, but its true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. – Danny Boyle
The extraordinary thing about India is that its such a family place. Its full of families everywhere. – 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 theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. – Danny Boyle
I dont want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something thats under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. – Danny Boyle
You experience the films through the actors, so theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. – Danny Boyle
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallaghers mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs. – Danny Boyle
Ive sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. – Danny Boyle
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. – Danny Boyle
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. – Danny Boyle
