Danny Boyle

“Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.”

“Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.”

“Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.”

“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, b...”

“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.”

“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...”

“Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.”

“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 th...”

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

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