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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Actor Bit Confident Cunning Directors Extra Feel Film Get Like Looks Lot Making Nightmare Push Quite Scared Sometimes Stealth Them Things Time Trust Try You

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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Always America Anybody Audience Because Being Big Britain Church Everybody Film First First Time Get Go Going Laugh Like Mainstream Never Out Over People Popular Quiet Say Scared See Shout Time Whatever You

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You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Actor Every Every Night Frozen Know Like Night Time You

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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Big Cricket Fan Football Sports Sports Fan

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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Contemporaries Dance Foolish Full Get Looking Love Magical Modern-Day Music Musical Original Sing Supposed Things Those Without Your

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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Always Because Bond Books Grew Kid Love Loved Movies Obviously Reading Them Up Watching I Love

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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Bored City Go Grew Holiday Person Up

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I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Absolutely Adore America Cop Film Genre Love

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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Almost Always Destiny Feels Obey Passive Thing Us You

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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Music Pop Pop Music Score Songs Tend Western

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: October 20th, 1956

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