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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

~Danny Boyle

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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

~Danny Boyle

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Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

~Danny Boyle

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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.

~Danny Boyle

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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.

~Danny Boyle

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

~Danny Boyle

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I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

~Danny Boyle

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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

~Danny Boyle

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I am a sci-fi fan.

~Danny Boyle

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Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

~Danny Boyle

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: October 20th, 1956

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