3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle The problem with being British… I don’t know if it’s me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher’s mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’
