Danny Boyle

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  • “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.”…

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  • “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.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “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

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  • “I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “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

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  • “The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.” -Danny Boyle

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