Quotes from Danny Boyle

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

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

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

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 they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

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.

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

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

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

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.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.