162 Quotes by Danny Boyle

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you’re the least qualified person to talk about them. When you’re finished, you don’t watch them at all.

There’s lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I find it difficult enough being called “Mr. Boyle,” which as I age I’m increasingly called.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don’t practice anymore or anything.

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’ve never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

There’s lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there’s occasional things that can’t be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there’s no distinction between the two.

I don’t want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

You use elements of noir, but you don’t want it to be too noir-ish. You don’t want it to be advertised as though you’re asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don’t think they’ll go do that. They want to see a modern story.