Quotes from Danny Boyle

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.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

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.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

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 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.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

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 world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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

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

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

I trained in the theatre.

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.

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 what cinema is and why we love it.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

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

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

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.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

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.