162 Quotes by Danny Boyle

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.

When you’re in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

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.

I grew up in a city, I’m a city person – I go on holiday and I’m bored.

Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it’s actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

I’m always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I’m always after not knowing what I’m doing in those extreme circumstances.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you’re bound to.

Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It’s usually a guy, I’m afraid. But then you’re setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you’ve discussed it more analytically.

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.