Danny Boyle Quotes

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• 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.

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  People, Desire, Different

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

  Danny Boyle

  Expectations, Good Place

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

  Danny Boyle

  Cash

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• 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.

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  People, Skins, Trying

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• If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

  Danny Boyle

  Ifs

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• 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.

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  Animal, Important, Sun

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• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.

  Danny Boyle

  Moving, People, Might

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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

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  People, Feelings, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Wonder, Extraordinary

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

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  Important, Mixtures, Compromise

  "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.

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

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  Holiday, Cities, Bored

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

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  "Interview: Danny Boyle Talks 127 Hours, James Franco, and Darren Aronofsky". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2010.

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• We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

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  Drama, Feelings, Stories

  "Danny Boyle's, James Franco Interview, 127 Hours". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 27, 2018.

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

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  Pride, People, Loud

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• Come a crisis, we want other people.

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  People, Want, Crisis

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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

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  Guy, Being There, Not Sure

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• It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

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  Optimistic, Cities, People

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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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.

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  Giving, Way, Stage

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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

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  Beach, Bits, Radar

  "Dispatch from Europe: Danny Boyle’s Sci-Fi Plans and “The Plague” Spreads Online" by Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. May 11, 2005.

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• There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.

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  Jobs, Character, Apples

  "And the Nominees Are". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

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  Acting, Film, Tradition

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Men, Biology

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

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  Serious, Want, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Film, Extremes, Customs

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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