Quotes from Danny Boyle

I am a sci-fi fan.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

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.

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.

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

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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?'

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

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.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

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.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.