Top 67 Quotes by Danny Boyle

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.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

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.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

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.

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.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.