It’s not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it’s what you learn about yourself, really. It’s a funny old hippie thing, but it’s true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. – Danny Boyle
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force. – 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. – Danny Boyle
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. – Danny Boyle
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it. – Danny Boyle
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. – Danny Boyle
I’ve never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. – Danny Boyle
I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. – Danny Boyle
I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. – Danny Boyle
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. – Danny Boyle
It’s easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for ‘A Life Less Ordinary’. – Danny Boyle
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them. – Danny Boyle
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. – Danny Boyle
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I’ll be as flamboyant as I can. – Danny Boyle