Top 67 Quotes by Danny Boyle

I love cities.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.