Quotes by Danny Boyle

“I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.”

“Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.”

“Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

“sort of to reintroduce life into the country, ... So thats the premise of it. Its got a good idea in it. I like that.”

“It wont be the people who were in the first one, Theyre too busy. Naomie Harris is doing [the sequels to] Pirates of the Caribbean , and Cillian Murphy is in Batman [ Begins ]. Theyre doing really well. So good luck to them, really.”

“The Beach.”

Its a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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

Im a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

Ive always wanted to do a space movie.

Its not so much what you learn about Mumbai, its what you learn about yourself, really. Its a funny old hippie thing, but its true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

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