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

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Expectations Good Good Place Hope Place You

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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Again Any Anything Back Civility Consideration Decency Force Get Instinct Life Live Manners More Need Politeness Powerful Powerful Force Survival Taste Than Will

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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.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: About Find Funny Hippie Learn Lot Much Mumbai Old Out Really Thing Tolerance True Well You Your Yourself

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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.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Again Always Back Budget Changing Different Feel Films Genres Getting Good Good Idea Idea Innocence Making Very Vulnerable Way Within Working Yourself

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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.

~Danny Boyle

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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.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Always Desire Different Easy Get Hard Lead Like People Psychotic Push Route Something Something People Unusual Very You Your

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

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Cash Lots Solved Things

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I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Almost Days Impossible Mean Suspense Twists

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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.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Experience Film Films Make Objectively People Really Sit Skin Something Tactile Them Try Want Watch You

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

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Although Atheist Call Hope Kind Myself Quite Spiritual Suppose

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: October 20th, 1956

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