Danny Boyle

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

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

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

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.