Danny Boyle Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Desire, Different

• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  Danny Boyle

  Awards, Ego, Stuff

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

• I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Done, Way

• 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

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

• 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.

• Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Hard Work, Character

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

• 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

  Mean, People, Twists

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Skins, Trying

• 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.

• The most extraordinary thing, you'd be given permission for, and then the weirdest, simplest things, you just wouldn't be able to obtain permissions. And it would go on and on and on forever and ever, and there was no way to know. You have to kind of approach it with an open, quite optimistic mind, no matter what's thrown at you, because it will only ever result in damaging the film if you let any kind of despondency get to you.

  Danny Boyle

  Optimistic, Forever, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  Imagination, Hatred, Majority

  "IGN Interviews Danny Boyle". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

• I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

  Danny Boyle

  Want, Serious, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  Intelligent, Differences, Levels

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

  Danny Boyle

  Beach, Cities, Suits

• Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

  Danny Boyle

  Watches, Way, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  Chance, Film, Ends

• There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.

  Danny Boyle

  Space, Three, May

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

• Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.

  Danny Boyle

  Skills, Knowing, Temptation

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

• I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

  Danny Boyle

  Serious, Want, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

  Danny Boyle

  Ordinary, Popular Song, Film

• Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

  Danny Boyle

  Cocoons, Actors, Agents

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

• Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, World, Film

  "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.

• 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.

• 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

  Ideas, Different, Way

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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