Zitat des Tages von Danny Boyle:
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
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.
I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
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.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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.
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.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
Come a crisis, we want other people.
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.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
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.
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.
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.
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
I've always wanted to do a space movie.
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
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.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
