Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle
Daniel "Danny" Francis Boyle is an English film director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, Sunshine, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs. Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 October 1956
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
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 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.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
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. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
There's 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.
When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
I don't see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.