Danny Boyle Quotes - Page 2

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• The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

  Danny Boyle

  Ambition, Successful, Perfect

  "Danny Boyle Interview, Trance". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Men, Biology

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

  Danny Boyle

  Independent, Awards, Media

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

  Danny Boyle

  Film, Extremes, Customs

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

  Danny Boyle

  New York, Thinking, Hollywood

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

  Danny Boyle

  Zero, Moving, Forever

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

  Danny Boyle

  Opening Ceremony, Games, Important

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed.

  Danny Boyle

  Will To Survive, Way, Facts

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

  Danny Boyle

  Nice, Simple, Focus

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

  Danny Boyle

  Would Be, Way, Film

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we thought it would be really interesting if they could look at each other every other night and play each other's roles.

  Danny Boyle

  Eye, Night, Views

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.

  Danny Boyle

  Stars, Technology, Thinking

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

  Danny Boyle

  Vanity, Giving, Watches

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

  Danny Boyle

  America, Firsts, Chance

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

  Danny Boyle

  Character, Thinking, Odds

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.

  Danny Boyle

  Moon, Cost, Taxpayers

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

  Danny Boyle

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.

  Danny Boyle

  Art, Manipulation, Doe

  "Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to 'T2 Trainspotting'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

  Danny Boyle

  Pain, Struggle, Ego

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

  Danny Boyle

  Children, Hypocrisy, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Events in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that young part of ourselves, we can start asking partners to look after that part of ourselves or we wound ourselves.

  Danny Boyle

  Responsibility, Events, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

  Danny Boyle

  Children, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.

  Danny Boyle

  Voice, Feelings, Doubt

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.

  Danny Boyle

  Running, Mistake, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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