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
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
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
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and its true, you dont. You dont even remember people who disappear. – Danny Boyle
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks