“ 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, an… Danny Boyle
“ Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension. 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 wha… 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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. Danny Boyle
“ I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope. Danny Boyle
“ Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another… Danny Boyle
“ The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. 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 that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. 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?' 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. 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 thin… Danny Boyle
